Re: Bug#595728: git-core: permissions of templates too restrictive

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Philipp,

Philipp Kern wrote:

> Thanks for the bug report.  Indeed the git-core package is broken on
> lenny/i386 since the last point release on Saturday.  Sadly nobody caught
> that bug when the package was in proposed-updates.  It's only i386, that's
> affected, because of oddities on the uploader's build machine.  The autobuilt
> ones look fine.
> 
> I scheduled a binNMU.

Thanks for the analysis.  Do you think it would be worth cherry-picking
the fix from v1.6.0.3~81^2 (Fix permission bits on sources checked out
with an overtight umask, 2008-08-21[1]) to lenny to prevent this from
happening again?

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git/commitdiff/d8bdc49