Re: File permissions

["Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" <gandalf@le-vert.net>]

Le lundi 11 septembre 2006 14:46, Arjan Oosting a écrit :
> Op ma, 11-09-2006 te 22:25 +1000, schreef James Healy:
> > Mentors,
> >
> > I am attempting to build a package and lintian is spitting out a bunch
> > of "executable-not-elf-or-script" warnings.
> >
> > The upstream tarball has an examples directory which I am installing
> > into the package using dh_installexamples. None of the examples are
> > shell scripts or ELF binaries, yet they seem to untar with executable
> > permissions.
> >
> > What is the best way to modify the permissions when I copy them over?
>
> Hi,
>
> Disregard my previous advise. I should have read the man page of
> dh_fixperms first:
>
> dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build
> directory (excluding files in the examples/ directory) be mode 644.
>
> So it seems you have to do it with a call to chmod in your
> debian/rules.
>
> Greetings Arjan

I don't think exec bit in a tarball is right. Best way is to repack upstream 
sources.