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

[Daniel Leidert]

Hmm. It seems my mail did not reach the BTS. So this is the second try.
Please excuse, if you get this mail twice.

Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 23:47 +0900 schrieb Junichi Uekawa:
> 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

s/0600/0644

> > (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)

I don't use cowdancer.

> 2. Does setting umask inside debian/rules help?

I guess, it would (I can also exolicetly set the file permissions back
to 0644 in debian/rules). But it will of course not solve the issue
itself. Only the mentioned file gets executable flags. All other file
permissions stay "unchanged".

Regards, Daniel