Package: tex-common Version: 0.15 Severity: normal
The debconf setting tex-common/managedlsr allows one to make the file /var/cache/fonts/ls-R group-writable. The purpose of that is correctly explained as allowing this file to be updated immediately by non-root users after a new font is generated, instead for waiting for the daily cron job. However, in this case it also makes sense to restrict the generation itself to users in the same group, i.e. to make the subdirectories of /var/cache/fonts mode 2775, group tex (or rather whatever group is specified by tex-common/groupname). It used to be that tetex-bin created these subdirectories in postinst, and thus a local admin could just change the permissions by hand and upgrades wouldn't touch them. Now tex-common ships them in the deb with hardcoded permissions 1777, which is wrong for this situation. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10custom1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.70 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 2.005 Update Configuration File: preserv tex-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * tex-common/groupname: tex tex-common/cnf_name: * tex-common/managedlsr: cache -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
