Hi, (please CC me on replies)
we have found an interesting problem in Debian package scripts. This is related to the behaviour of the Hurd and BSD to create new files with the gid of the parent directory, rather than the process. And sgid flag on directories is simply ignored. POSIX allows that. For example, if you build a package as root which is unpacked as user joe, the files in the package will have a group of joe. You can imagine that this is not a good thing to have. It should be the same on the Hurd as on BSD, but I have no BSD around to check. So I thought I would just give you a heads up on this issue, because it really puzzled me, and maybe you want to check if your builds are all fine. Candidates are dpkg, base-files, and debianutils because their debian/rules commands are not careful enough to explicitely set the group to root. I don't know if you have fakeroot for BSD. But it should even show up in a fakeroot build. If you unpack and build as root, you will also want to know about bug report #144571. I hope this is helpful. If you don't have this problem, congratulations and just ignore this mail :) If you have this problem, you might need to fix those debian/rules files. For the Hurd, we definitely have this problem but we might change the default to be like Linux in this regard, so I am not sure if we will continue to have it. If we do, we need to fix those rules files, too, and we might coordinate our efforts. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
