Bug#851892: To tight permissions on /dev/ptmx

[James Clarke]

Control: reassign -1 debootstrap
Control: forcemerge 817236 -1

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:29:51PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Package: cowbuilder
> Version: 0.83
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
> libvirt builds started fo fail recently for me due to gnulib tests that
> access /dev/ptmx failing. The reason is:
>
>    $ ls -l /dev/pts/ptmx
>    c--------- 1 root root 5, 2 Jan 19 14:16 /dev/pts/ptmx
>
> when invokint pbuilder like
>
>    pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder
>
> This changed somewhen mid January. Can /dev/pts/ptmx be made 0666 again?

#817236 strikes again; the thread there has various workarounds.

Regards,
James