Bug#896840: lintian: autopkgtest fails with new version of file

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

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Chris Lamb wrote:

> > This is caused by library having executable bits set, which is how the
> > pie executable vs shared object check in file works.
[…]
> FYI for confirmation of the executable bits:

The more I think about it, the more I think this is a misleading
and non-intuitive misfeature of file.

Any thoughts before I essentially re-assign this?


Regards,

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