Bug#4513: libpng
On 19 Sep 1996, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> llucius <llucius@millcomm.com> writes:
> > Package: libpng1
> > Version: 0.89c-1
> > While building on the m68k arch, I received the following from dpkg:
> > dpkg --build /bld/src/new/libpng-0.89c/debian/tmp ..
> > dpkg-deb: building package `libpng1' in `../libpng1_0.89c-1_m68k.deb'.
> > dpkg-deb: maintainer script `postinst' has bad permissions 644 (must be
> > >=0555 and <=0775)
>
> I don't think this is a libpng bug---I just checked the original
> version on my HD, and it is in fact 775. I suspect that the version
> of dpkg you're using (maybe all of them) is not correctly reassembling
> the source by not making sure the perms are correct on the files that
> are patched in.
>
Hi Mike,
I believe if you try to extract the source with dpkg-source and then check
the permissions you "should" find them to be incorrect. (Maybe dependent
on you umask, but it looks like dpkg-source overrides it.) I think they
should be set in "debian/rules".
Thanks,
Leland
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