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



On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:01:01PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote:
> 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?

Try it - it crashes.  No one's had time to fix this yet.

I agree that this is very unfortunate.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz



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