Re: IMPORTANT: Fix for bad permissions on 1.1 boot floppies

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

David Engel writes ("Re: IMPORTANT: Fix for bad permissions on 1.1 boot floppies"):
> > > > >This has nothing to do with this bug.  But I've always wondered why
> > > > >some shared libs have the x bit on?  And some don't?
> > > > ...
> > > I prefer them as 755 (or 775) since that's how the linker generates
> > > them and they are executable in a sense.  I believe a.out shared
> > > libraries used to need the execute bit to be set.
> > 
> > Should I add a sentence to the guidelines to recommend root.root 755
> > for shared libraries ?  (We already mandate permissions on most other
> > files.)
> 
> Please do.

Done in dpkg 1.1.6.

Ian.