Ulrich Mueller: >>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> In yesterday's meeting the QA team has unanimously accepted the >> following policies (see bug 537580 for details): > >> 1. Directories /usr/games, /usr/games/bin, /usr/games/lib*, >> /usr/share/games, /var/games, /etc/games, and /opt must be owned >> by root:root and have permissions 755 (i.e. the default). > >> This will require a small change in games.eclass, because currently >> prepgamesdirs() changes ownership of these directories to root:games >> and mode to 0750, so they are readable only by users that are members >> of the "games" group. With attached patch, games.eclass will no longer >> change permissions of the top-level directories (mostly, these are >> identical to the FHS locations). > >> [...] > >> 2. A new group to allow setgid binaries to access shared score/state >> files will be created. The name of this group will be "gamestat". > > The change to games.eclass has been committed now, and the policy is > documented here: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#Games >
Has this been done in cooperation with the games team? If not, why? I think QA should make a clear statement if they are acting above a projects head and why they had to do so, because this doesn't look like a joint effort.
