[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#739575: Bug#739575: python-pysam-tests: world writable directory tree: /var/lib/pysam/tests

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:08:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> the directory is intended to be written by the world since the whole
> world should be able to run the test suite there ... this is the purpose
> of this package at all:  Let everybody run the test (including
> autopkgtest) and forget about the directory afterwards.
> 
> Do I need to mark this intention to not provoke any errors?

Hi Adreases,

I think that the expectation is that the package provides a directory tree to
be copied in a temporary location; this solves the problem of write
permissions.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan