Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hello Debian Policy people.

This is to tell you that I've finally changed base-files in unstable
to not create /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local anymore on new installs,
following the TC decision about this in Bug #484841 and the transition
plan explained in the file /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local itself.

If we decide to continue with group staff, next step would be to make
sure packages follow the plan by the time buster is released as
stable.

With a little bit of help from debhelper maintainer (on which most
packages build-depend) and people doing Continuous Integration
(piuparts), I truly believe this would be a feasible goal for buster.

OTOH, if we decide to forget about group staff completely
(as I read Ubuntu did), we would still need to ensure that
packages forget about group staff as well.

[ I, for one, would prefer to reunificate with Ubuntu in this issue
  and get rid of staff completely, but this is just my opinion ]

Should we maybe ask TC again about this? A lot of time have elapsed
since they made their decision, and the world has changed a lot since
then.

Thanks.