Bug#900612: apache2-suexec-pristine: Packaging steps undo setting of setuid bit

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 02:06:10 CEST Jason Perrin wrote:

> This appears to be a problem in the source for this package, on the master
> branch, as well as on separate branches for different distros:
> https://salsa.debian.org/apache-team/apache2/blob/master/debian/rules#L148-1
> 53 I'm not sure how this has worked properly to produce packages, since the
> last change to that section was 6 years ago, so I'm a bit confused on that
> point.


That's weird because it seems all distributed packages in the last 6 years 
have the correct permissions. Do you build the package as root? Usually 
packages are built as non-root user using fakeroot. Maybe fakeroot is not 
being faithful to the real kernel behavior and hides the bug.

Cheers,
Stefan