[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#615259: base-passwd: [users-and-groups] /var/spool/cups no longer owned by group sys

[Luca Capello]

Package: base-passwd
Version: 3.5.20
Severity: normal

Hi there!

While reading /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz, I
found the following entry:

  Chapter 2. Users and Groups
  [...]
   sys

     HELP: As with bin, except I don't even know what it was good for
     historically.

     I'm told that /var/spool/cups is owned by group sys, dunno why.
      
The latter, however, is not the case anymore since at least lenny, where
/var/spool/cups is root:lp and 710.  The same is true on squeeze.

Unfortunately, there is nothing useful in the cups changelog.Debian,
maybe the Debian CUPS Maintainers (cc:ed) know better ;-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.8
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages base-passwd depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

base-passwd recommends no packages.

base-passwd suggests no packages.

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