On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:07:52PM +0100, Magnus Ekdahl wrote: > Is there a good way to get file permission changes into ones source package > automaticly ? Diffs cannot preserve permissions. The only way you can achieve this is either to generate a fresh tarball (probably a bad idea if you're not the upstream maintainer) or, as you mentioned, to run chmod before running the script. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]