Dan Jacobson wrote: > fakeroot -u has the unsightly side effect of not making some control > files owned by root: > -rw-r--r-- jidanni/jidanni 12 ./conffiles > -rw-r--r-- root/root 6719 ./md5sums > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 291 ./postinst > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 275 ./postrm > -rw-r--r-- root/root 15 ./shlibs > -rw-r--r-- jidanni/jidanni 1410 ./control > Probably merely unsightly. > > Also the date of ./conffiles isn't the same as in /var/lib/dpkg/info, > not that it is important.
Well dpkg does preserve the conffiles file ownership if the package is installed, so a user could then edit the conffiles list. But the security exposure is probably slight. -- see shy jo
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