Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I believe that the problem is that the diff we use doesn't store > permission information, and so zcat ../foo-12.diff.gz |patch -p1 > (which *creates* debian/*) doesn't have a chance to restore with > execute permission. dpkg-source -x does set x permission on debian/rules. I don't know how, but it does. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer