Sven Joachim writes ("Re: Bug#421792: /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums inherits
from package"):
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > These files are generated during package building as DEBIAN/md5sums,
> > and that file's permissions and ownership are inherited by the
> > installed file. (I have just tested this with a pre-1.14.8 dpkg just
> > to be sure.)
>
> Are you sure? For the binutils package this does not seem to be the
> case; the version in my apt cache does not have an md5sums file.
> Probably the submitter's binutils.md5sums file was created by debsums.
I don't use debsums but I was under the impression that it just made
checks against md5sums generated from or included in .debs. That's
what the package Description says anyway. I see from debsums's bugs
that you're right.
> Yes, because dpkg was not even involved in creating the file; the bug
> should get reassigned to the debsums package (arguing that the
> debsums script should assure that the files it creates are
> world-readable)
Benoit: do you have debsums installed ?
> or closed as a local misconfiguration (a umask of 077
> for root is certainly not TRT).
I think that it's a configuration which ought not to break dpkg.
Ian.
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