[Logcheck-devel] Bug#302379: dh_installlogcheck installs files as root:root 644, not root:logcheck 640

[Frédéric Brière]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:54:34AM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote:
> I reported a bug on a couple clamav packages (302253, 302254) which
> noted that in Sarge, logcheck files are supposed to be root:logcheck
> 640, not root:root 644.  The clamav maintainer replied that he's using

I should note that while the /etc/logcheck/* directories are setgid to
attempt to fix this discrepancy, this doesn't work, as dpkg will chown()
the installed files anyway.

I guess there should be a note in README.Maintainer to instruct people
not to install those files as 640, as tempting as it may be.


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