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and subject line Bug#962420: fixed in fontconfig 2.17.1-4
has caused the Debian Bug report #962420,
regarding /usr/local/share/fonts owned by group staff even if
/etc/staff-group-for-usr-local not present
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Package: fontconfig-config
Version: 2.13.1-2
Severity: normal
The /usr/local/share/fonts directory, as created by the postinst script of
fontconfig-config, is always owned by group staff, with permissions 2775.
This is a violation of Debian Policy §9.1.2. Those specific ownerships and
permissions should only be given when the file /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local
is present. When it is not, the directory should be owned by root:root and have
permissions 0775.
Note that, since buster, new installations do not have
/etc/staff-group-for-usr-local by default, which makes this bug biting more
often.
Best,
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Source: fontconfig
Source-Version: 2.17.1-4
Done: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fontconfig, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Simon McVittie <[email protected]> (supplier of updated fontconfig package)
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:11:41 +0000
Source: fontconfig
Architecture: source
Version: 2.17.1-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Closes: 962420 1072210 1100871
Changes:
fontconfig (2.17.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload
* Merge NMUs from trixie and early forky development
- Only make /usr/local/share/fonts 2755 root:staff if
/etc/staff-group-for-usr-local is present.
Thanks to Anibal Monsalve Salazar (Closes: #962420)
- Use `mkdir -p` to create /usr/local/share if necessary.
Thanks to Luca Boccassi (Closes: #1100871)
- Clean up 70-no-bitmaps-except-emoji.conf on purge.
Thanks to Kirill Rekhov and Boyuan Yang (Closes: #1072210)
* Revert a metadata change made to tr.po in one of the NMUs, which
doesn't look as though it was intended
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