Bug#287184: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#287184: logcheck overwriting ownership/permissions of /etc/logcheck/* on upgrades

[Todd Troxell]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:11:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > In postinst logcheck "fixes" permissions of /etc/logcheck/* to 750.
> > 
> > In my (and others on #d-d) opinion ownership and permissions should be
> > preserved upon package upgrades.  Logcheck must not screw with my
> > decision to make them world readable every time it configures.
> 
> The better approach is probably to wrap to fix in a test for upgrades
> older than the version where the change of permissions was introduced.

Just a note, this was tried before in previous versions and we ran in to
permissions problems.  Because we were unable to track down the cases in
which permissions were breaking logcheck, The decision was made to set for
every configure to ensure a working package for sarge release.

I have since gained some insight into this, and I will set permissions on
<.33.  Note that this is currently dependent on #287237.

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