executables in share

[Kees Cook]

Binary package hint: screen-profiles

/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/cpu-count
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/cpu-freq
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/ec2-cost
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/hostname
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/load-average
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/mem-available
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/mem-used
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/reboot-required
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/release
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/updates-available
/usr/share/screen-profiles/bin/whoami

These programs should be in /var/lib/screen-profiles, per the FHS. Some people mount /usr/share with noexec.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Good call.

I've been needing to fix this for a while. I'm going to add a prerm/postinst script to add/remove a symlink to the /usr/share location, to ensure seamless upgrades.

:-Dustin

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package screen-profiles - 1.32-0ubuntu1

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screen-profiles (1.32-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * bin/ec2-cost: since route -n is being used, must grep for 0.0.0.0,
    LP: #336955
  * debian/postinst, debian/prerm: add/remove symlink for bin scripts to
    /var/lib/screen-profiles (should be removed before Jaunty GA)
  * profiles/common, debian/install: install helper scripts into
    /var/lib/screen-profiles rather than /usr/share/screen-profiles/bin,
    LP: #336961

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:35:12 -0600

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

As discussed on IRC, /var/lib/ is wrong since binaries are not variable state data. /usr/lib/ would be an acceptable compromise.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Reopening...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package screen-profiles - 1.48-1

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screen-profiles (1.48-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * upload to unstable (Closes: #518958)
  * add myself to uploaders
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1

screen-profiles (1.48-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  Drop the distro name in generated profiles
  * debian/install: fix installation of profiles
  * debian/rules: don't create the ubuntu profile symlink
  * debian/screen-profiles-extras.install: no longer need to install
    the distro-specific profiles
  * profiles/generate: generate profiles which do not have ubuntu-
    prepended
  * select-screen-profile: remove the ubuntu specific profile handling
  * screen: fix broken symlinks to ubuntu-* profiles
  * screen-profiles: drop special ubuntu handling
  * screen-profiles-export: drop ubuntu prepending

  * screen: default to the light profile, if unspecified; this should be
    acceptable now that the F9:Menu prompt is always shown, and from there,
    any user can easily change their profile; just touch the windows config
    file since F5 reloads reopens all windows; launch with motd+shell if
    no args to screen are specified
  * keybindings/common: don't force users to name a window on F2 window
    creation
  * debian/postrm: remove the || true on the diversion removal, per Debian
    ITP; I suppose we want to know if the diversion removal failed
  * screen-profiles, screen-profiles-status: default uptime status to 'on',
    generally useful, and pretty compact
  * bin/mem-available: fix subtle bug where whitespace is printed if in a
    totally default (no status file) configuration
  * screen-profiles-status.1, debian/rules: manpage added
  * screen-profiles-export: randomly generate tarball name, if unspecified

screen-profiles (1.47-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * screen-profiles-status: stop grepping after one match, subtle perf
    improvement
  * bin/logo: lsb_release is really expensive, try /etc/issue first,
    and fall back to lsb_release if that fails
  * bin/date, bin/time: last release installed 644 for some reason?

screen-profiles (1.46-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * bin/date, bin/time, screen-profiles-status, screen-profiles-export,
    screen-profiles: allow for configuring on/off the date and time
    status, LP: #359050
  * bin/logo: added logos for foresight and xandros
  * bin/battery: use the more intense yellow for lower battery percentage

screen-profiles (1.45-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * bin/cpu-freq: fix for powerpc LP: #352286, fix for arm LP: #362157,
    always report in GHz, round to nearest hundred
  * bin/uptime: don't print seconds, since we don't update often enough
  * bin/*: route and ifconfig are in /sbin, fully qualify
  * Performance improvements, LP: #360759
    - screen-profiles-status: use home bin scripts, if available first,
      then fallback to system-wide, allows for local overrides; comment
      out nice and ionice calls; this *really* slows down startup
    - bin/release: eliminate one expensive lsb_release call
    - bin/updates-available: background updates checking processes,
      let them write to cache, and let th...