Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Atlas proposal"):
> I recommend instead doing the same thing that all the out-of-tree kernel
> modules that build with module-assistant do: ship the source as a .tar.bz2
> file, unpack it during the build, and then make clean after a successful
> build.
>
> Please don't ship files mode 600. It's a Policy violation for all the
> good reasons stated in Policy.
You are, of course, entirely right.
Ian.