On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:15:59PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > Hi, > > 10.9 Permissions and owners currently says > > | Files should be owned by root:root, and made writable only by the > | owner and universally readable (and executable, if appropriate), > | that is mode 644 or 755." > > However most files shouldn't be modified as modifications will just be > lost (e.g. everything installed by the package manager that isn't > handled as a conffile). It also gives more permissions than the > minimum needed.
What about dpkg-divert ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.