Bug#264948: libc6: /lib/libc-2.3.2.so permissions

[Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
Severity: normal
File: /lib/libc-2.3.2.so


With woody/libc6_2.2.5, libc.so.6 was executable; at testing/libc6_2.3.2
it is only readable. I note that executing the library directly provides
useful version info, and this feature is used e.g. by the MATLAB software
package.

This seems to have been a deliberate change in testing:

dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb | grep 'lib/libc-2.2.5.so$'
-rwxr-xr-x root/root   1153784 2002-04-28 19:57:33 ./lib/libc-2.2.5.so

dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.3.2.ds1-13_i386.deb | grep 'lib/libc-2.3.2.so$'
-rw-r--r-- root/root   1243856 2004-05-26 04:40:27 ./lib/libc-2.3.2.so

Could the library be made read/executable again?

Thanks,

Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au  http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics  University of Sydney   2006  Australia


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux savona.maths.usyd.edu.au 2.6.5-smssvr2.0 #1 SMP Fri Apr 30 08:51:17 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl