Bug#387064: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#387064: File permission could be mangled

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Tue Sep 12 14:47:41 UTC 2006


Hi,

> This is some really obscure issue. I'm maintaining docbook-xsl. I'm
> currently building version 1.71.0.dfsg.1-1. When I build this version
> with pbuilder, the file
> /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/slides/keynote/xsltsl/cmp.xsl
> gets executable file permissions (0755). The checkout is made from CVS
> (using cvs-buildpackage). The file itself has only 0600 file permissons
> (definitely no executable tag). When I build the package with debuild,
> everything is ok. But when I use pbuilder, the file get's executable
> flags added, which results in a lintian warning.

A few obvious things to check first:

1. Are you suing cowdancer ? It might be a bug in cowdancer. (I assume you aren't)

2. Does setting umask inside debian/rules help?

regards,
	junichi
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