Bug#967857: debian-policy: [Files/Permissions and owners] files installed by package manager should not be writable
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:15:59PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> Hi,
>
> 10.9 Permissions and owners currently says
>
> | Files should be owned by root:root, and made writable only by the
> | owner and universally readable (and executable, if appropriate),
> | that is mode 644 or 755."
>
> However most files shouldn't be modified as modifications will just be
> lost (e.g. everything installed by the package manager that isn't
> handled as a conffile). It also gives more permissions than the
> minimum needed.
What about dpkg-divert ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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