Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.27
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
After being bitten by #306113, I thought that this scenario can be
prevented by some automated checks.
So I'm proposing that dpkg-buildpackage could, after invoking
debian/rules clean, check for files in the debian/ directory which have
executable permissions, and if there exist some (and it's not
debian/rules), issue a warning.
This can generate a list of 'suspect' files:
find debian -perm +0111 -type f -not -name rules -not -regex
'.*\(pre\|post\)\(inst\|rm\)$'
It's trickier to ask tar to check if those files are in the
.orig.tar.gz, especially doing it without unpacking the whole things for
every single one of them; however, that is not necessarily needed, as
we're talking about printing a warning and letting the build continue.
The warning could be something like:
The following files have been found to be executable in the debian/
directory: unless they are stored inside the .orig.tar.gz, their
executable permission will be be lost and they cannot be invoked
directly by build scripts:
debian/file1
debian/file2
Ciao,
Enrico
System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.5-1.2 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii make 3.80-9 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.4-8 Core Perl modules
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