Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Severity: wishlist Inconditional use of dpkg-statoverride in postinst is a very common mistake made by packagers who want to change the ownership of some files.
Check 1: -------- I suggest to flag as error any usage of dpkg-statoverride --add if there's no dpkg-statoverride --list call in the same maintainer script because policy allows usage of dpkg-statoverride for dynamically allocated user ids provided that there's no previous statoverride configuration for the given file: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.9.1 Check 2: -------- Another interesting check would be to catch usage of dpkg-statoverride with a statically allocated uid. The only valid reason for this would be to setup a non-standard permission on the request of the admin (via debconf). So if you see "dpkg-statoverride --add www-data www-data 755 /var/lib/foo" you should flag it but "dpkg-statoverride --add root root 4755 /usr/bin/foo" should not be flagged. Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-1 ii diffstat 1.54-1 ii file 5.09-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.25+b1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.2~64.gbp647fe5 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.185-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.59-1 ii locales 2.13-23 ii man-db 2.6.0.2-3 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-6 ii unzip 6.0-5 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.2~64.gbp647fe5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii man-db 2.6.0.2-3 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
