Bug#714771: #714771: yate modules should not be executable [was: Re: yate is marked for autoremoval from testing]

[Paul Chitescu]

On Wed Jul 9, 2014 01:54:36 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:31:50PM +0300, Paul Chitescu wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Can't this FTBFS be fixed by the patches I submitted?
>
> Thanks. Applied them. While you're here, what do you think about
> https://bugs.debian.org/714771 ?
>
> Someone went and tried crashing all executables on a Debian system. It
> turned out that yate modules crashed immediately when executed.
> Resolution; they should not be executable.
>
> I can reset the executable bit in the Debian pacaging, but I guess this
> is better fixed in the Makefile. It seems that modules are install using
> INSTALL (install) or INSTALL_D (install -d). Should explicit permissions
> be added?

I looked at the permissions of libraries on Debian and Ubuntu systems and it 
appears that all libraries are not executable.

So the permission change should apply not only to Yate modules but also to 
various libyate*.so* it installs.

What do other Debian packages use to install their libraries?

Paul