> > > I have also noticed that a lot of files from the packages have > > > permission 600 now: > > > > > > $ ls -al /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp > > > -rwx------ 3 root root 25K 11. Okt 12:59 /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp > > > > This is nothing new, but an unfortunate design of cups. > > To make things worse, there does not seem to be a package owning the > following files under /usr/lib/cups/backend: dnssd, http, ipp, lpd, > parallel, scsi, serial, snmp, socket and usb.
This is because those files are hard links to corresponding files in /usr/lib/cups/backend-available. They are managed by cups's postinst and prerm, and the exact determination if which backends are used is managed by a debconf question. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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