Bug#555977: debian-policy: Constraints on binary package control files
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Now that the terminology is in, the patch to address the normative issue
> in this bug is short and simple. Objections or seconds?
This has been merged for the next release.
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -8014,6 +8014,12 @@ endscript
> </footnote>
> </p>
>
> + <p>
> + Control information files should be owned by <tt>root:root</tt>
> + and either mode 644 (for most files) or mode 755 (for
> + executables such as <qref id="maintscripts">maintainer
> + scripts</qref>).
> + </p>
>
> <p>
> Setuid and setgid executables should be mode 4755 or 2755
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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