Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed
Raul Miller:
> > Below is an automatically generated list of packages which appear
> > to be installed, and which have associated with them unexecutable
> > programs in either /var/lib/dpkg/info/ or /usr/bin
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.
I've had other cases in the last couple days where re-installing the
package fixed the problem
> I've checked my system and I can't find any unexectable scripts that
> aren't prerm/postrm scripts of packages I've not removed yet. Are you
> sure that these scripts weren't installed using a version of dpkg
> prior to 0.93.50 ? (I believe that's the first version which would
> set the permissions.)
I'm positive that these are recent installations, with a version of
dpkg more recent than 0.93.50.
If it's not dpkg that's doing this, I suppose maybe it's a kernel bug
of some sort...
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Raul
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