Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In this bug report the user reports that they had a non-world-readable
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/binutils.md5sums
>
> These files are generated during package building as DEBIAN/md5sums,
> and that file's permissions and ownership are inherited by the
> installed file. (I have just tested this with a pre-1.14.8 dpkg just
> to be sure.)
Are you sure? For the binutils package this does not seem to be the
case; the version in my apt cache does not have an md5sums file.
Probably the submitter's binutils.md5sums file was created by debsums.
> Therefore if the permissions were wrong it must have
> been a buggy package.
No, it was probably caused by a bad umask when debsums ran and created
the binutils.md5sums file.
> Guillem's statement that this was the same problem as #413151 appears
> to have been mistaken.
Yes, because dpkg was not even involved in creating the file; the bug
should get reassigned to the debsums package (arguing that the
debsums script should assure that the files it creates are
world-readable) or closed as a local misconfiguration (a umask of 077
for root is certainly not TRT).
Regards,
Sven
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