On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Here's a draft policy proposal. If this looks ok I'll submit it to the
> policy group.
Thanks for doing this. It looks fine, with the exception of a small typo:
> + Since setuid and setgid programs are often a security rick,
^ risk
If we could come up with a standard way of setting these permissions, to
avoid the kind of messing around in the postinst that we do now, it would be
trivial to add lintian/linda warnings for this, to encourage maintainers to
discuss the situation before uploading. doogie, asuffield and I discussed
this on IRC recently.
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- mdz
