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

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

tags 264948 confirmed fixed-upstream
thanks

At Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:31:01 -0400,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.

At least it should be fixed in the next glibc cvs update after sarge.

Regards,
-- gotom