The policy does says that ALI files must be installed "r--r--r--".
I hardly understand the practical difference with "rw-r--r--", the common practice for /usr/. The root user can circumvent the permissions anyway. If we want to warn him that he should not modify *.ali, why do we let him modify the sources or the compilation options in the project, invalidating the ali files and causing the same kind of problems? I would like opinions about two independant suggestions. - the policy should enforce the same permissions for all installed files, not only ALI files. - these permissions should be "rw-r--r--" for least surprise. The subject may seem cosmetic, but debdiff considers this a difference, making its output quite hard to read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130830000858.GB12274@pegase
