Bug#889489: lintian: improve description of maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

2018-02-04 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 889489 + pending thanks Applied in Git with a few changes. Many many thanks :) https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=d0c97d122f74564d489467dd0a201fa3cdc31ba3 Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.u

Bug#889489: lintian: improve description of maintainer-script-should-not-use-recursive-chown-or-chmod

2018-02-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.72 Severity: normal Tags: patch It would be nice to explain to maintainers how to avoid using chmod -R. The attached patch makes the description of the problem and some possible steps to resolve it better. it also points to another similar bug in ntp. --dkg --