Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Hm, is there any reason why we can't ship them as 2775, anyway? The local admin can use dpkg-statoverride if he really wants it world-writable (just as you can now to work around this bug). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)