On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:21:27AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote:
You should run 'check_perms -f' as root until the problems are fixed, but there is one caveat. I think the Debian package installs a number of symlinks and check_perms doesn't do well with symlinks. It checks the ownership and mode of the symlink itself and finds a problem. It then tries to fix the problem, but this fixes the target, not the symlink. So, it will continue to report problems with the permissions of the symlink even though there are really no problems.
It does. I keep meaning to write a patch to fix that, as it annoys me quite a lot.
The symlinks are part of making the package adhere to Debian Policy, istr.
One of the PPA packagers is onlist (although maybe the dev list), ISTR.
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