Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > Let's keep it simple: Beginning squeeze, base-files will no longer > create those directories with special permissions. I think this respects > the "principle of least surprise", as already created directories (from > lenny) will be kept in whatever status they are. > > Note: Those directories are created only when base-files is first > installed by debootstrap from debian-installer.
We need to also deal with all the other packages that create directories in /usr/local, which I think is mostly the interpreters (Perl, Python, etc.), Emacs, TeX, and a few other similar cases. The TC decision and discussion does seem to point towards a preference to better support people who want things to be staff-writable than just saying "use chgrp/chmod." I was expecting something along the lines of Don's proposal, basing permissions of new directories off of the permissions on the parent directory. I do agree that your approach would be a lot simpler, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
