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   Message 28,676 of 28,835   
   Julien Cristau to Simon McVittie   
   Bug#1127101: ca-certificates: ca-certifi   
   23 Feb 26 18:00:02   
   
   From: jcristau@debian.org   
      
   On 2/6/26 10:48, Simon McVittie wrote:   
   > Package: ca-certificates   
   > Version: 20250419   
   > Severity: minor   
   >   
   > Prompted by recent changes in fontconfig and its handling of   
   > /usr/local/share/fonts, I noticed that ca-certificates' example local   
   > ca-certificates-local package also creates a directory below /usr/local   
   > with mode 2775 and owner root:staff (when it is removed).   
   >   
   > According to Policy ยง9.1.2, since Policy 4.1.4 (2018), directories below   
   > /usr/local should normally be created with mode 0755 and owner   
   > root:root, a change that was made to avoid privilege escalation by   
   > members of the staff group. (There's a flag file to opt back in to the   
   > old behaviour.) For ca-certificates itself this was fixed as #916833,   
   > but ca-certificates-local never got the same change.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately dh_usrlocal probably cannot be used in this specific case.   
      
   Hi Simon,   
      
   I'm somewhat tempted to remove the ca-certificates-local example   
   entirely; it hasn't been updated since 2013 and I'm not sure it's all   
   that useful nowadays.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Julien   
      
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