On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2022-01-18 09:26 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > Source: ncurses > > Version: 6.3-2 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Usertags: umask > > X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > > Hi, > > > > Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that > > ncurses could not be built reproducibly. > > Thanks. I should have noticed that from the failing reprotest in the > Salsa CI, but did not look closely and thought that it would be due to a > different problem that has shown up on i386 since ncurses 6.3-1. > > > This is because the README.gz file will retain its group-writeable bit > > due to the use of dh_fixperms -Xfoo, and will thus vary when the package > > is built with a different umask: > > > > --rw-r--r-- 0 root (0) root (0) 7937 2021-03-07 > > 00:08:58.000000 ./usr/libexec/ncurses-examples/README.gz > > +-rw-rw-r-- 0 root (0) root (0) 7937 2021-03-07 > > 00:08:58.000000 ./usr/libexec/ncurses-examples/README.gz > > > > Patch attached that removes this bit manually, but feel free to go with a > > different solution, of course. > > > --- a/debian/rules 2022-01-18 08:47:42.277389249 +0000 > > --- b/debian/rules 2022-01-18 09:03:30.547729907 +0000 > > @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ > > dh_compress -p$(package-examples) usr/libexec/ncurses-examples/README > > dh_compress -a -N$(package-examples) > > dh_fixperms -a -Xusr/libexec/ncurses-examples/README > > + chmod g-w debian/ncurses-examples/usr/libexec/ncurses-examples/README.gz > > That works with umask 002, but in fact the file could have any > permissions from 000 to 666, depending on the umask used when the source > was unpacked. > > I have installed a different fix, and now the reprotest succeeds > again[1].
The last change does a "chmod -x" (which is odd, since the tarball uses 644 for README). > Cheers, > Sven > > > 1. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ncurses/-/pipelines/339074 > -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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