Bug#1006927: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms: please don't make all files executable in subdirectories of /usr/libexec

2023-08-22 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, I think that what valgrind does is a plain (_minor_) mistake that makes libexec hard to audit and should not be used as a good practice reference. So I filed #1043527 against Valgrind. I think this will/would require some change in V's upstream; I'll have a look again at it later. > *

Bug#1006927: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms: please don't make all files executable in subdirectories of /usr/libexec

2023-08-03 Thread Matthias Klose
also seen in gcc-13, dh_fixperms "fixes" the permissions for liblto_plugin.so, and then lintian complains about that.

Bug#1006927: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms: please don't make all files executable in subdirectories of /usr/libexec

2022-03-12 Thread Niels Thykier
Simon McVittie: > Package: debhelper > Version: 13.4 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms > > In debhelper 13.4, usr/libexec was added to the array @executable_files_dirs > of directories in which all files are to be made executable. > > I'm not sure that this is necessarily

Bug#1006927: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms: please don't make all files executable in subdirectories of /usr/libexec

2022-03-08 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: debhelper Version: 13.4 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms In debhelper 13.4, usr/libexec was added to the array @executable_files_dirs of directories in which all files are to be made executable. I'm not sure that this is necessarily appropriate: several packages install files