Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Paul Cunningham wrote:

  ... cut ...

> 
>> 2. usr/src/lib/libneon/install-sfw
>>      & usr/src/lib/libneon/install-sfw-64
>>    Don't deliver files with the write-permission bit set into /usr
> 
> OK, i can't do this either. Both libneon and subversion were originally 
> integrated with the permissions set as you see them right now. If i 
> change the permissions, there will be complaints from protocmp, and that 
> will evolve into someone else complaining about the complaints from 
> protocmp. Either way, someone will complain.
> 
> As it is right now, permissions bits remain identical with the previous 
> (original) integration. That avoids pointless complaints at the bottom 
> of nightly.log, and also avoids another round of conversations about why 
> is protocmp complaining about file permission bits, when protocmp 
> shouldn't be complaining about file permission bits.
> 
> And this is a very good illustration of why code reviews should perhaps 
> avoid dealing with stylistic preferences which aren't really 
> standardized anywhere, but are merely, and mostly, a matter of personal 
> preference.
> 
> If there really was an interdiction about not delivering 0644 header 
> files under /usr, then the previous integration would not have happened 
> with the currently existing permissions, or it would have been corrected 
> sometime between 2006 and now, or someone would at least have filed a CR 
> about wrong permission bits for libneon and subversion header files. 
> None of this happened.
> 
> I also see a whole bunch of header files with permission 0644 under 
> /usr/include/*.h, and subdirectories.

Okay - but please remove me from your RTI reviewer list

paul

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