Hi Guillem, Helmut,
I've got a bit of time this week and I'd like to make some progress on
ppp, otherwise I'm likely to let it stagnate until the Cambridge
mini-DebConf in November.
On 15/05/2026 13:11, Chris Boot wrote:
Hi Guillem, Helmut,
On 11/05/2026 10:32, Helmut Grohne wrote:
Hi Chris and Guillem,
On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 08:28:25PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
On Wed, 2026-05-06 at 17:14:19 +0200, Chris Boot wrote:
2. In the pppd tarball, I will let/etc/ppp/peers/ be mode 0755, just
like it is in pppoe/wvdial/xtel. I believe that this should resolve
the dpkg file metadata conflict.
Hmm, I think I'd rather see the actual intended perms be part of the
tar metadata. More so given that I think this is a security sensitive
directory?
I was telling Chris much the same and as he preferred the statoverride
mechanism, I asked him to invite you for review.
So just for clarity on my part, what would the recommended way forwards
be for ppp? Make /etc/ppp/peers be 0700 in the tarball _and_ add the
statoverride as well? And at some point dpkg will figure out who
"owns" /etc/ppp/peers to resolve the metadata conflict?
I have now merged my dpkg-statoverride change, forgetting that we still
had this conversation open. Are you happy for me to go ahead and upload
that, or should I change things around?
This is what's currently pending:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ppp/-/compare/debian%2F2.5.2-1+2...master?from_project_id=34
Cheers,
Chris
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