On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:50:21AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Since suidregister was removed, packages are now allowed to ship items with > the > set[gs]id flag on. This is currently a lintian warning. I have considered > removing it (and bugs ask me to do so) however I am not sure it is the right > thing to do. The warning lets the developer know that they are shipping > possibly hazardous/security threatening/will cause bugs later items. So, do I > leave it and let people use overrides? Or do i remove them and hope the rest > of debian does not miss an accidental permission setting from upstream?
I think overrides are best. It makes sure people know exactly what is suid/sgid in the file. Also makes it easy to see which files are suid/sgid in that package. -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian/GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org LPSG "member" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
