On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just started to look at all the things that lintian reported about my > packages (thanx!) and I noticed: > > W: groff: non-standard-file-perm usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/GXditview 0444 > > I noticed than that quite _all_ the files in that dir (on my hamm > system) are mode 444 (instead of 644) with few exceptions. > > Policy says (4.6): > > *Application defaults* files have to be installed in the > directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/'. They are > considered as part of the program code. Thus, they should not be > modified and should not be tagged as *conffile*. If the local > system administrator wants to customise X applications globally, > the file `/etc/X11/Xresources' should be used. > > Therefore I think that it is better to leave them mode 444 so a user > (educated by Slackware) will find little more difficult to modify them > (mode 444 should make him think that that file shouldn't be modifyed)
I don't think that this is a good solution. (The user would have to be root anyways, to edit these files, but root can also edit 444 files very easily.) > But this should be carved in policy (before being implemented in > lintian): > > *Application defaults* files have to be installed in the > directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/'. They are > considered as part of the program code. Thus, they should not be > modified (they are installed not-writable) and should not be > tagged as *conffile*. If the local system administrator wants > to customise X applications globally, the file > `/etc/X11/Xresources' should be used. > > I also suggest that some relevant package (base-files?) installs a > README in that directory quoting this part of the policy, just as a > quick reference to all those users that "thinks" app-defaults files > are the right place for site-changes. The file /usr/doc/X11/debian.README already mentions: `Please note that this distribution expects you to leave app-defaults files unchanged. If you want to customise X applications globally, put your customisations in /etc/X11/Xresources.' Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/