Remove obsolete footnote comment about dpkg-statoverride

Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
new feature and not well-known.  (Closes: #563425)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9c3c7c8fdbb7ce97cafc5530af60cc351f39f8d1..00bac97d706f0c7ea741f6d880bc938ad8e931c3 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ debian-policy (3.8.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
     dpkg-dev documentation instead.  The documentation that was in Policy
     was also somewhat outdated.  (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
+  * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
+    new feature and not well-known.  (Closes: #563425)
 
  -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>  Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 5f26cec0afa25714947c53ca4c48dae6ec7b404b..9cb4d6cc949ea08686dee939b23a19d2b01d62e2 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7753,15 +7753,12 @@ endscript
          security policy by changing the permissions on a binary:
          they can do this by using <prgn>dpkg-statoverride</prgn>, as
          described below.<footnote>
-             Ordinary files installed by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> (as
-             opposed to <tt>conffile</tt>s and other similar objects)
-             normally have their permissions reset to the distributed
-             permissions when the package is reinstalled.  However,
-             the use of <prgn>dpkg-statoverride</prgn> overrides this
-             default behavior.  If you use this method, you should
-             remember to describe <prgn>dpkg-statoverride</prgn> in
-             the package documentation; being a relatively new
-             addition to Debian, it is probably not yet well-known.
+           Ordinary files installed by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> (as
+           opposed to <tt>conffile</tt>s and other similar objects)
+           normally have their permissions reset to the distributed
+           permissions when the package is reinstalled.  However,
+           the use of <prgn>dpkg-statoverride</prgn> overrides this
+           default behavior.
          </footnote>
          Another method you should consider is to create a group for
          people allowed to use the program(s) and make any setuid