[cmake-developers] [CPackDeb][libarchive] removing use of fakeroot and supporting UID/GID/UNAME etc in libarchive

[Domen Vrankar]

> From this (thanks to lintian now I have the proper link :) )
>
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/control-file-has-bad-permissions.html
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-permissions-owners
>
> all control files:
> - should be owned by root:root (+ I would say uid/gid 0/0, because root may
> be mapped) which is the case now
> - should be 755 or 644, depending if they are executable or not
>
> The number of files that should be 755 are limited to (according to
> linitian) config, postinst, postrm, preinst, and prerm. All others should be
> 644.
>
> So I would say without loss of generality, we can set the permission to 644
> except for those config, postinst... files . I can send you a patch based on
> 76c59007dd3944e23848b7d5912a59a7d3db6398 today (and update the doc
> accordingly).
>
> Is that good for you?

Sounds good.
Those rules are written as guidelines and I'm not certain how often
they are broken so could you also add a single variable for toggling
between defaults described above and using file permissions as
provided?

Thanks,
Domen