Re: Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, Santiago Vila wrote:
> The "/usr/local" directory itself and all the subdirectories created
> by the package should have permissions 755 and be owned by "root:root"
> if /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local does not exist, and they should have
> permissions 2775 (group-writable and set-group-id) and be owned by
> "root:staff" if /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local does exist.

Thanks for doing this work! The original wording took me a few readings
to parse; I suggest this instead:

If /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local does not exist, /usr/local and all
subdirectories created by packages should have permissions 0755 and be
owned by "root:root". If /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local exists,
/usr/local and subdirectories should have permissions 2775
(group-writable and set-group-id) and be owned by "root:staff".

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