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Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need



Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> writes:

> [Kees Cook]
>> This doesn't work with source-format-1 packages without adding
>> "chmod" lines for the scripted debhelper config files in the rules
>> file. Perhaps this isn't a big deal since we should all be using
>> source-format-3 anyway.
>
> We should?  I prefer to think of this whole debacle as yet another
> reason to never switch to format 3.  So long as I stay with format 1,
> "features" like this one will never come back to bite me.
>
> (Well, yes, it could still happen to me with native packages.  But
> that's a much smaller attack surface than if I used format 3.)

This has nothing to do with the source format you use other than that
tarballs will retain the x flags and diff.gz will not.

MfG
        Goswin


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