Bug#2668: dpkg-deb in dpkg-1.1.3 confusion about permissions requi

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)  wrote on 07.04.96 in <[🔎] Pine.SUN.3.92.960407113851.5069A-100000@bb29c>:

> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.1.3
>
> dpkg-deb: building package `e2x11' in `debian-tmp.deb'.
> dpkg-deb: maintainer script `postinst' has bad permissions 640 (must be
> >=0555 and <=0775) make: *** [binaryx11] Error 2
>
> mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)

The error message seems perfectly ok to me. You need execute permission on
your scripts, and that's what it says.

MfG Kai