Re: Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

reassign 60573 general
thanks

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:

> reassign 60573 SantiagoVila
> thanks

Considering the way the bug system forwards reports to maintainers, a
bug should never be reassigned to a package which does not exist.

For what is worth, base-files does not change the permissions of /tmp,
as everybody able to do a simple

dpkg -c base-files_2.1.18.deb | grep tmp

may easily check if they were more interested in discovering the reason
for this than blaming others.

Some people uncompress tar files containing the current directory "." 
under root on /tmp. To prevent this, some people have suggested to me in
the past that I make a chown and a chmod in base-files.postinst to fix
permissions in /tmp in case they were broken. This is wrong, because it
would hide the real problem (if any) and would make it more difficult to
discover.

Thanks.

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