[Pkg-openldap-devel] r619 - in openldap/trunk-2.3/debian: . patches

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> > Er, what lintian warning are you expecting to fix with this?  From a
> > packaging standpoint, it is *completely* irrelevant whether files under
> > the debian/ tree are marked as executable in svn, because they're all in the
> > Debian diff and unified diff format does not contain file permission
> > information.

> > If this is a "script not marked as executable" error in the *binary*
> > package, then the debian/rules need to be fixed so that it *installs* the
> > scripts as executables.  If it's a different lintian warning, then I don't
> > know what it is.

> It's idd the "script not marked as executable" warning.

> Hm, then I'm wondering why my dpkg-buildpackage did it right. Well I fix
> it in debian/rules.

If you have the files set executable locally, then a simple copy will
preserve the execute bits.  But the point is that if you build from a
pristine source package, the executable bits will *not* be preserved in the
Debian diff.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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