This is what upstream replied... it does seem reasonable to me. Do you feel this is an adecuate solution? --
Felipe Sateler
--- Begin Message ---On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote:On Sunday 18 November 2007 19:33:15 Felipe Sateler wrote:I received a wishlist bug on Debian with an attached patch. The request is to add an option to set default permissions for all files (that is, give the same rights as group to others). I'm not sure if this is a good idea, any comments?To clarify: if one has umask 0027, then installed files will not be readable for anyone except root. There are two alternatives, ship a new option for this, or reuse the existing --reset-uids, which is already fixing permissions. I'm not really sure which one is best.Why not use --umask=<desired_mask>? The option is already there.--reset-uids should also be useful since it sets the mostly sane perms of 0755 for dirs and 0644 for files.Am I missing something?
--- End Message ---
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
