Hi Karl.
> Is it a bug or a feature that the Texinfo 5.2 tarball extracts with
> directories being world writable?
>
> Feature. Well, at least it's intentional.
>
> Anyone who cares should set umask before unpacking, as usual.
> Seems to me.
Something's messed up somewhere. Ubuntu 12.04:
$ umask 022
$ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz
$ ls -ld texinfo-5.2
drwxrwxrwx 15 arnold arnold 4096 Sep 27 02:06 texinfo-5.2
"Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
Besides, haven't the Autconf / Automake guys been making releases that
change the default permissions on directories in tar balls to avoid this?
(I admit I haven't followed in close detail.)
Thanks,
Arnold
