Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local
Adding the bug instead of debian-policy@.
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local"):
>> 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".
> SGTM. (AKA "seconded".)
Seconded.
Thank you for bringing this back to life, Santiago! I've been wanting to
resolve this for some time.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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