Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

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 >> t

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

Santiago Vila writes ("Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local"): > [ I, for one, would prefer to reunificate with Ubuntu in this issue > and get rid of staff completely, but this is just my opinion ] > > Should we maybe ask TC again about this? A lot of tim

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

This would be a "pseudo-patch": Replace this: The "/usr/local" directory itself and all the subdirectories created by the package should (by default) have permissions 2775 (group- writable and set-group-id) and be owned by "root:staff". by this: The "/usr/local" directory itself and all the

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

Hello Debian Policy people. This is to tell you that I've finally changed base-files in unstable to not create /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local anymore on new installs, following the TC decision about this in Bug #484841 and the transition plan explained in the file /etc/staff-group-for-usr-local

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

Thomas Hochstein writes: > Santiago Vila wrote: >> I wonder if we really want to do all that in 2017. The staff-writable >> /usr/local for a "sysadmin assistant" was an interesting idea twenty >> years ago. Today, we would give a sysadmin assistant an entire virtual >> machine to

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

Santiago Vila writes: > However: > I wonder if we really want to do all that in 2017. The staff-writable > /usr/local for a "sysadmin assistant" was an interesting idea twenty > years ago. Today, we would give a sysadmin assistant an entire virtual > machine to play with, and

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 08:03:23AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: retitle -1 Transitioning perms of /usr/local > > Hello Santiago, > > The TC decision in #484841 is not yet reflected in Policy. > > We could close the bug by simply dropping the requirement that > /usr/local be

Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local

control: retitle -1 Transitioning perms of /usr/local Hello Santiago, The TC decision in #484841 is not yet reflected in Policy. We could close the bug by simply dropping the requirement that /usr/local be group-writeable by staff, but Russ says that you would like your transition plan to be