Bug#19305: expect5.24: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#40

[gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark)]

David Engel <david@sw.ods.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 08:11:12PM -0000, schwarz@debian.novare.net wrote:
> > E: expect5.24: shlib-with-executable-bit usr/lib/libexpect5.25.so.1 0755
> > 
> >    Shared libraries should be mode 0644.
> > 
> >    Please check out Policy Manual, section 3.3.3 for details.
> 
> Who made this policy?  I disagree with it for two reasons.  First,
> shared libraries have traditionally been executable, whether it is
> needed or not.  Second, ld creates shared libraries as executable.  If
> this truly should be policy, then ld should be changed.

Marking them executable serves no useful purpose, if you try to run them you
geta core dump. Good point about ld, go ahead and report that as a bug.

> > W: expect5.24: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/doc/expect5.24/examples/mkpasswd.gz
> >    [same message reported 12 more times]
> 
> These are all example scripts.  Should they not be compressed?

Well, either not compressed, or not executable, or possibly gzexe'd, though
that seems unecessary. Having an executable gzip file is meaningless; try
running it.

greg


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