[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#470494: Bug#470494: bzr-builddeb: Permissions of unpacked files don't respect umask

[James Westby]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 16:46 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Package: bzr-builddeb
> Version: 0.92
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   When unpacking a tarball with normal tar the permissions of the tarballs
>   contents are filtered through the set umask. So for example directories in
>   the tarball with permission 777 become 755 when your umask is the standard
>   022. When bzr-builddeb unpacks upstream tarballs this isn't the case though.
> 
>   This is a bit annoying as the make dist process of autoconf sets directories
>   in the tarball to 0777. Resulting in world writable directories when building
>   a package :(

Thanks for the bug report. I am not going to fix this in the current 
upload I'm afraid.

builddeb uses python's tarfile, and I can't see a way to either
give it a umask, or make it use the users.

Perhaps I can fix this by chmodding things afterwards, but I
would rather not go to that effort now.

Thanks,

James