Adding the bug instead of debian-policy@. Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local"):
>> Thanks for doing this work! The original wording took me a few readings >> to parse; I suggest this instead: >> >> If /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local does not exist, /usr/local and all >> subdirectories created by packages should have permissions 0755 and be >> owned by "root:root". If /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local exists, >> /usr/local and subdirectories should have permissions 2775 >> (group-writable and set-group-id) and be owned by "root:staff". > SGTM. (AKA "seconded".) Seconded. Thank you for bringing this back to life, Santiago! I've been wanting to resolve this for some time. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>