Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> writes: > The second footnote reads: >> [2] Ordinary files installed by `dpkg' (as opposed to `conffile's and >> other similar objects) normally have their permissions reset to the >> distributed permissions when the package is reinstalled. However, the >> use of `dpkg-statoverride' overrides this default behavior. If *you* >> use _this_ method, you should remember to describe `dpkg-statoverride' >> in the package documentation; being a relatively new addition to >> Debian, it is probably not yet well-known.
> Since dpkg-statoverride is meant to be used by the system owner I don't > see how that last sentence makes sense. > I see two options: > a) Drop the sentence. > b) Replace "this method" with something like "special permissions." > The "being a relatively new addition to Debian, it is probably not yet > well-known." part should also be dropped as dpkg-statoverride dates back > to year 2000. Thanks! Since dpkg-statoverride is documented for use in package maintainer scripts only in the specific case of needing to change ownership of a file to a dynamically created user or group, and since in that case there's no particular need for special documentation, I dropped the whole sentence for the next Policy release. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
