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

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

Kai Henningsen writes:
> mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)  wrote:
> > 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
>
> The error message seems perfectly ok to me. You need execute permission on
> your scripts, and that's what it says.

Quite.  I'm closing this bug report.  (=> and <= obviously don't mean
comparision of numerical magnitude when applied to permissions !)

Ian.