[Bug 437012] [NEW] eucalyptus-common maintainer script should not add dpkg statoverrides

[Steve Langasek]

Public bug reported:

The eucalyptus-common maintainer script is calling dpkg-statoverride
--add in the postinst for /usr/lib/eucalyptus/euca_rootwrap.  Packages
should *never* add dpkg statoverrides; statoverrides exist so that
*admins* can tell dpkg to apply different permissions to a file.  Since
this file needs to have permissions that can't be shipped in the tarball
(because we're using a non-standard group), the correct thing to do here
is (pseudocode):

  if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/lib/eucalyptus/euca_rootwrap; then
    chgrp [...]
    chmod [...]
 fi

This will leave a window between unpack and configure when the script
has the wrong permissions, but packages are not guaranteed to be in a
usable state during that window anyway.

When making the above change, additional cleanup handling should be done
to identify any dpkg-statoverrides added by this package and remove
them.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 25 19:37:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: eucalyptus-common (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: eucalyptus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

** Affects: eucalyptus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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eucalyptus-common maintainer script should not add dpkg statoverrides
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437012
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