From d7b051f0be33e6fae37231c65183261fd6bf0b97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:48:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Specify ownership and permission for control information
 files

---
 policy.sgml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index c0415c1..9aca16c 100644
--- 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
-- 
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