Re: wrong GID owner breaks execution of X

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:25:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > but dpkg is expected to update file permissions/owners isn't it?
> 
> No, actually it's not expected to do that.
> 
> The current behaviour allows users to override permissions on
> directories without having to worry about them again after upgrades.
> 
> The side effect, of course, is that wrong permissions are not
> automatically "fixed" by dpkg, because dpkg does not know whether they
> are different because they were wrong, or because you wanted them to
> be different.
> 
> The current dpkg behaviour assumes the user knows what he/she is doing.
> I don't think dpkg maintainers will want to change it, but feel free to ask.

mmh.. too late, i already asked. well let's see if they take my suggestion
so every user doesn't need to fix permissions manualy :)

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992