[Debian-med-packaging] permission of rules in MEME

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:06:58PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the build process changed the permission of rules.
> The changed verson is 755, the old one is 644. At least the GNU
> Hello debian package has 755 as well. Since it is a makefile, I
> think it probably should be executable.

Uhmmm, sure debian/rules should be executable and I have no idea why
this is not the case.  On my copy of SVN it has definitely 755.  After
removing the file an an `svn up` I ended up with a 644 - so you are
correct.  I do not have the slightest idea why this happened (svn
magic???)

As far as I know the safest way to fix permissions in SVN is deleting
the file and re-adding it with proper permissions ... and so I did now.
That's a bit disgusting - I'm not aware that this has happened out of
nowhere in the past in our SVN.  Thanks for noticing.

> faheem at orwell:/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0p2/debian$ hg dif --git
> diff --git a/rules b/rules
> old mode 100644
> new mode 100755

BTW, this is the first occurance where I see three VCSes involved:
Using hg with git option to work on svn. ;-)

If you prefer DVCS we could switch meme packaging from SVN to git if you
like (and nobody else insists). 

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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