Bug#895597: lintian: Please improve advice on fixing maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

2018-04-13 Thread Chris Lamb
Neil, > There are a lot of people waiting on this upstream release, a lot of > other tasks outside Debian. The upstream release can't wait for this > Debian bug to be fixed […] […] > A rushed fix to the current postinst is simply unacceptable. I'm lost, sorry.. None of these prevents you

Bug#895597: lintian: Please improve advice on fixing maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

2018-04-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:33:54 +0100 Chris Lamb wrote: > tags 895597 + moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Neil, > > > From the tag description (extended in bug #889489), it's not clear > > to me *how* to use runuser for the requested fix and *why* using > > runuser actually fixes the

Bug#895597: lintian: Please improve advice on fixing maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

2018-04-13 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 895597 + moreinfo thanks Hi Neil, > From the tag description (extended in bug #889489), it's not clear to me > *how* to use runuser for the requested fix and *why* using runuser > actually fixes the problem described in the tag I can't comment on this directly, but the tag was also

Bug#895597: lintian: Please improve advice on fixing maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

2018-04-13 Thread Neil Williams
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.82 Severity: wishlist >From the tag description (extended in bug #889489), it's not clear to me *how* to use runuser for the requested fix and *why* using runuser actually fixes the problem described in the tag and the referenced bug reports. (The bugs referenced in