Re: unexecutable debian scripts

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>]

In message <[🔎] m0tx3Np-0002Z1C@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>, Ian Jackson writes:
>rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu writes ("unexecutable debian scripts"):
>> While examining the dpkg info directory, I happened to notice that a 
>> lot of the debian scripts are unexecutable.
>You must have looked while packages were `unpacked'; dpkg chmods the
>scripts to make them executable before it runs them, IIRC.

Is this a "Just In Case" feature, or is this meant to imply that such
scripts in the .deb packages _should not_ be executable?

Mike.
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