On 2011-04-26 22:14 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> reassign 624228 synaptic
> thanks
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 19:33, Matt Weatherford <m...@uw.edu> wrote:
>> Fresh install of debian6....
>>
>> root@proteus:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# ls -la
> […]
>> -rw-r----- 1 root root 32 Apr 26 10:06 99synaptic
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Apr 18 2010 99update-notifier
>>
>> **NOTE: 640 permissions on 99synaptic
>>
>> -- Package-specific info:
>>
>> Either package shipped like this, or one of the gnome apt gui tools changed
>> it
>> incorrectly. Caused a red "Do not enter" icon to show up on the toolbar
>> for the package manager/checker and errors about "bad permissions" on said
>> file
>
> I just installed synaptics and changed something in the settings
> so it created this file - but it had the correct permissions set.
Apparently some synaptic versions shipped the conffile with too strict
permissions, and dpkg will not change permissions of conffiles on
package upgrades (see #192981 on that topic).
Cheers,
Sven
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