Bug#2546: dpkg inappropriately marks packages as installed

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

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