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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On 31-12-2004 04:37, Todd Troxell wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:11:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

>>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.

For the record: You could solve such case by checking against versions
earlier than the the one were you introduce the checking code. That way
you include too much, but the change is made once on each system.

If you want to be more polite, then add a NEWS entry for that version
were the change is introduced, so that users of apt-listchanges get
notified, and can change it back if they for some weird reason rely on
non-standard permissions.


 - Jonas

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