Specify ownership and permission for control information files

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c132b111bffe6bcb6880e6c3cb725fe256a..9aca16c1a6ea44c39d3e84ee50b014530352e162 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8014,6 +8014,12 @@ endscript
           </footnote>
        </p>
 
+       <p>
+         Control information files should be owned by <tt>root:root</tt>
+         and either mode 644 (for most files) or mode 755 (for
+         executables such as <qref id="maintscripts">maintainer
+         scripts</qref>).
+       </p>
 
        <p>
          Setuid and setgid executables should be mode 4755 or 2755