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

[Sune Vuorela]

On Monday 09 June 2008, 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?

Full ack.  In the default configuration, gnupg works nicely without setuid 
bit, so this should be the default. And we have dpkg-statoverride for exactly 
that purpose.

So let us soon tag it wontfix and leave it open (for other users to easy 
locate it)

/Sune
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