Bug#352394: tex-common: permission scheme for /var/cache/fonts

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com> wrote:

> It used to be that tetex-bin created these subdirectories in postinst, and
> thus a local admin could just change the permissions by hand and upgrades wouldn't
> touch them.  Now tex-common ships them in the deb with hardcoded permissions
> 1777, which is wrong for this situation.

Hm, is there any reason why we can't ship them as 2775, anyway?  The
local admin can use dpkg-statoverride if he really wants it
world-writable (just as you can now to work around this bug).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)