Bug#352394: tex-common: permission scheme for /var/cache/fonts
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Frank Küster 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).
Nothing that comes to my mind immediately. Only how to choose the group?
Ship it as root.root, do we change the ownership of the directories on
dpkg-reconfigure tex-common?
Best wishes
Norbert
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