[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1087525: polkitd: polkit-tmpfiles.conf overrides dpkg-statoverride

[Michael Gold]

Package: polkitd
Version: 125-2

Dear Maintainer,

Something was removing the world-readable mode of /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/
on my system (repeatedly), which meant that an un-privileged git process
was not able to check for changes until I fixed it.

It took me a while to track this down.  I thought it was not the polkitd
package, because its maintainer scripts specifically skip the "chmod" on
the directory if a dpkg-statoverride entry exists, as does on my system.

But it seems that the /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/polkit-tmpfiles.conf file from
this package is to blame; it does not respect the statoverride settings.
I don't see why it is necessary, and the relevant changelog entry has no
explanation.  I also don't consider it appropriate to modify a permanent
administrator-controlled directory via the temporary-file mechanism; the
directory could be created by a maintainer script if necessary, and then
left alone.

If there is a good reason for this, the tmpfiles.d files should at least
be mentioned in polkitd.postinst to avoid frustration (dpkg-divert could
then be used to get rid of it).

- Michael


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

Kernel: Linux 6.11.7-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.137
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-6
ii  libc6                           2.40-3
ii  libduktape207                   2.7.0-2+b2
ii  libexpat1                       2.6.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                 2.82.2-2
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]         257~rc1-4
ii  libpam0g                        1.5.3-7+b1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0             125-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0           125-2
ii  libsystemd0                     257~rc1-4
ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]      257~rc1-4
ii  xml-core                        0.19

polkitd recommends no packages.

polkitd suggests no packages.

Versions of packages polkitd is related to:
pn  elogind         <none>
pn  libpam-elogind  <none>
ii  libpam-systemd  257~rc1-4
ii  systemd         257~rc1-4

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