[Bug 1266288] Re: cannot install permissions correctly

[Mark Sapiro]

In the upstream Debian package, these entries in /var/lib/mailman are
actually symlinks as

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20 Jul 17  2012 bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Jul 17  2012 cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 Jul 17  2012 cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   25 Jul 17  2012 icons -> /usr/share/images/mailman/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   17 Jul 17  2012 locks -> /var/lock/mailman/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   16 Jul 17  2012 logs -> /var/log/mailman/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   21 Jul 17  2012 mail -> /usr/lib/mailman/mail/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Jul 17  2012 Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Jul 17  2012 scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 Jul 17  2012 templates -> /etc/mailman/

check_perms is not designed to handle symlinks. It looks at the
ownership and mode of the symlink itself and complains and then, if
requested, fixes the target. Thus, it never "fixes" the symlink which it
can't do anyway.

Other than the complaint from check_perms, this is not a problem as the
ownership and mode of the symlink itself is irrelevant in practice.

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