Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:02:51PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Still, I'm loath to create extra rules that we don't need. In > > general, yes, *every* file should be readable, and it's appropriate to > > file bug reports for the Debian packages which needlessly prevent > > files from being readable. But I don't think we should ensconse a > > rule here. > > We've already got that as a rule, anyway, see 11.9. Permissions and owners: > > Files should be owned by `root.root', and made writable only by the > owner and universally readable (and executable, if appropriate), that > is mode 644 or 755.
Files that are copied from packages yes, but there is no rule that every file on a Debian system should have such a permission setting.
