Le samedi 06 février 2021 à 07:40 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
> On 6 February 2021 at 10:04, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > Package: r-base-core
> > Version: 3.5.2-1
> 
> That is two+ years behind (3.5.0 released April 2018, 3.6.0 in April
> 2019,
> 4.0.0 last year -- and 4.1.0 soon).

Sure. I just wanted to set the correct metadata (since the bug is
present in both stable and unstable).

> > is present. When it is not, the directory should be owned by
> > root:root and have
> > permissions 0755.
> 
> A disservice to our users as it makes it harder to have shared R
> package installations.

For the rationale, see:
https://bugs.debian.org/299007
https://bugs.debian.org/484841

In a nutshell, having /usr/local group-writable by default is a
security issue.

In any case, both setups are now supported.

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