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

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Thu Feb 20 10:47:51 UTC 2014


On 2014-02-20 10:08, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.

This works for $everybody. But $everybody+1 finds only the leftovers
from his predecessor there (or nothing if he cleaned up "properly").

> Do I need to mark this intention to not provoke any errors?

If you convince me, I can add exceptions. But I need to dig into this
further.

Users are allowed to modify/delete the python scripts in that directory?
What is the expected bahavior on package updates and modified .sam files
there?


Andreas



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