Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 11:42:49AM +0000, Colin Phipps wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:59:44AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > > > I just wanted to point it out here, since I wasn't sure whether I > > > should file a bug report against fakeroot for writing suid through, > > > > I consider it a bug; it's introducing a third permissions+ownership > > state that was requested by neither the author nor the builder of the > > package. > > <snip> > > So file some bugs about it. Start with debhelper, and have > debian/{tmp,$package} directories made 0700, then lintian, and when > it's become generally accepted, propose an amendment to policy.
I doubt I'd accept such a bug. It looks like a misdesign of fakeroot, and should be fixed in fakeroot. I agree with Colin Phipps's message entirely. -- see shy jo