reassign 60573 general thanks On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> reassign 60573 SantiagoVila > thanks Considering the way the bug system forwards reports to maintainers, a bug should never be reassigned to a package which does not exist. For what is worth, base-files does not change the permissions of /tmp, as everybody able to do a simple dpkg -c base-files_2.1.18.deb | grep tmp may easily check if they were more interested in discovering the reason for this than blaming others. Some people uncompress tar files containing the current directory "." under root on /tmp. To prevent this, some people have suggested to me in the past that I make a chown and a chmod in base-files.postinst to fix permissions in /tmp in case they were broken. This is wrong, because it would hide the real problem (if any) and would make it more difficult to discover. Thanks. -- "6649b7cd5e4e932694823acb1676df3f" (a truly random sig)
