Comment 3 for bug 253268

FWIW: *THEY* (including Steffen Joeris) thinks the problem is fixed... and that all web documents are to be owned by root.. (mind you I make the config file owned by root and log files and so forth) .. or that "ONE" person that needs to run a script but they can't place it anywhere because the folder must be owned by them or root.

(it's a catch 22 -- the patch is not much better than using the build in suexec inside apache).

read more here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475431

and try NOT to get irritated!