[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#485458: Bug#485458: gnupg: crashes with "Ohhhh jeeeee: ... this is a bug"

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:40:18AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Monday 9 June 2008 20:57, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > You can overwrite the package permissions via dpkg-statoverride to get
> > the setuid bit and you just need to do this once. I don't know your
> > program so I don't know, if running gnupg with the setuid bit is the
> > only choice you have, but normally I would doubt that. However,
> > dpkg-statoverride IMO is the correct choice here and not reverting the
> > change.
> >
> > Other opinions?
> 
> I think it's sensible to not install gnupg setuid by default and have those 
> special use cases that need it use dpkg-statoverride.

OK thanks. 

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