Hi,

At Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:59:25 +0100,
Roger Leigh wrote:
> Package: cupsys
> Version: 1.1.23-10
> Severity: important
> 
> The permissions on /usr/share/cups/model are strange compared with the
> other files in /usr/share/cups:

> The change isn't necessarily /wrong/, but if PPDs are installed from a
> .deb, the setgid bit will be ignored.  In this case the PPDs are
> generated in the postinst, which is why the group ownership changes.
> I can change by script to check for gid=lpadmin, but it's then no longer
> distribution-agnostic.  If there's no good reason for the current
> ownership and permissions, please could you change it back to
> root:root 0755?  Thanks.

Well, this change was taken from Ubuntu patch, for:
'allow lpadmin users to add printer drivers'.

But hmm, OK, it hurts other packages... I'll disable this feature.
Please wait next upload (maybe I'll do it till next weekend).

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
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