On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 17:50:24 Reuben Thomas wrote:
Package: checkinstall
Version: 1.6.1-4
Followup-For: Bug #447779
Instead of changing the permissions to 644, the patch should set the
"other" perms to the same as those for "group", i.e. "o=g".
I'm not sure if this is a good thing. Usually the software developer knows
better than checkinstall which files should have which permissions.
I am using packages that fail to set the permissions. Specifically, they
fail to override the permissions set by my umask, which is 0027, so files
end up being unreadable once installed (except by the root user).
The whole point of this patch is to help fix badly set permissions, just
like the patch already fixes badly-set uids, which the software developer
should also get right, but doesn't always.
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