From 05cff5be3f1b4caa02a45063ec754f6b390b4b1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:46:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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) --- debian/changelog | 2 ++ policy.sgml | 15 ++++++--------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 9c3c7c8..00bac97 100644 --- 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 The documentation that was in Policy was also somewhat outdated.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 Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200 diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 5f26cec..9cb4d6c 100644 --- 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 dpkg-statoverride, as described below. - Ordinary files installed by dpkg (as - opposed to conffiles and other similar objects) - normally have their permissions reset to the distributed - permissions when the package is reinstalled. However, - the use of dpkg-statoverride overrides this - default behavior. If you use this method, you should - remember to describe dpkg-statoverride in - the package documentation; being a relatively new - addition to Debian, it is probably not yet well-known. + Ordinary files installed by dpkg (as + opposed to conffiles and other similar objects) + normally have their permissions reset to the distributed + permissions when the package is reinstalled. However, + the use of dpkg-statoverride overrides this + default behavior. Another method you should consider is to create a group for people allowed to use the program(s) and make any setuid -- 2.39.2