Bug#945869: lintian: false positive for debian-rules-not-executable
On 2019-11-30 Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> I created the attached test case in Lintian, but I cannot get the tag
> to show using '--pedantic':
> $ frontend/lintian --pedantic
> debian/test-out/packages/tags/checks/debian/rules/permissions-775/permissions-775_1.0.dsc
> P: permissions-775 source: uses-debhelper-compat-file
> even though d/rules shows as group writable in the tar file:
[...]
Hello Felix,
> Also, what is your umask, please (although it should not matter)?
0002. And surprisingly it does matter ;-)
(sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/xxx$ umask 0022
(sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/xxx$ lintian --pedantic /tmp/permissions-775_1.0.dsc
P: permissions-775 source: uses-debhelper-compat-file
(sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/xxx$ umask 0002
(sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/TASN/xxx$ lintian --pedantic /tmp/permissions-775_1.0.dsc
P: permissions-775 source: debian-rules-not-executable
P: permissions-775 source: uses-debhelper-compat-file
cu Andreas
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