On 27 Feb 1998, James Troup wrote:
> Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > - make the program setuid in the .deb file. Additionally, put this in
> > > the
> > > postinst:
> >
> > No, games should not be `setuid', but `setgid games' only.
>
> Uh, svgalib based games have this unfortunate habit of requiring root.
Of course. Lintian currently knows the following cases:
game: binary may be setgid-games
svgalib: binary may be setuid-root
Every other use of setgid/setuid needs acknowledgement by the maintainers.
Thanks,
Chris
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