[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#491847: generating templates does not enforce an appropriate umask

[martin f krafft]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.11-2
Severity: normal

We use a umask of 0007 and after generating language templates for
mailman with dpkg-reconfigure, we found all files/dirs in
/etc/mailman/??/* to be mode 0660/0770 and thus unreadable by
mailman:

List: vcs-home: problem processing
/var/lib/mailman/lists/vcs-home/digest.mbox:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/templates/de/masthead.txt'

mailman should be setting a public umask of 0002 or 0022, or ensure
that the files are otherwise readable by whomever needs to read them.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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