Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Raul Miller writes ("Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed"):
> Ian Jackson writes:
>  >  > dpkg will not do anything to the permissions of files in /usr/bin - if
>  >  > the package is broken there dpkg won't fix it.
>
> Raul Miller:
>  > I've had other cases in the last couple days where re-installing the
>  > package fixed the problem
>
> That wasn't clear enough -- I've had other cases of executables not
> being executable in the last couple days, where re-installing the
> package fixed the problem.

!

Perhaps you made a mistake while doing a recursive chmod ?

Ian.