On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:39:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > You are now talking about putting things into policy that > require maintainerrs to change program behaviour to attain similar > functionality and features; and all the examples you quote are about > packaging details that are under our control completely.
No, we are talking about recommending that developers discuss with other developers before making a change to their package which is likely to affect the security of every system where the package is installed. File permissions and program privileges are clearly a packaging matter. What is the nature of your objection? -- - mdz