Re: rpmlint non-standard-[ug]id, non-standard-dir-perm

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On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> What is the rationale for these warnings and errors,

non-standard-[ug]id: useful for catching bad user/group ownership, most often 
encountered with missing %defattr/%attr when built as non-root with rpmbuild 
< 4.4.

non-standard-dir-perm: useful for catching bad dir permissions, e.g. sgid bits 
leaked to packages in some build setups, or accidentally otherwise bad perms.  
Should probably be downgraded from error to warning though.

> and why should the package avoid using them?

If they're intentional and correct, it shouldn't.

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