On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:01:01PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 > Severity: normal > File: /lib/libc-2.3.2.so > > > With woody/libc6_2.2.5, libc.so.6 was executable; at testing/libc6_2.3.2 > it is only readable. I note that executing the library directly provides > useful version info, and this feature is used e.g. by the MATLAB software > package. > > This seems to have been a deliberate change in testing: > > dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb | grep 'lib/libc-2.2.5.so$' > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1153784 2002-04-28 19:57:33 ./lib/libc-2.2.5.so > > dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.3.2.ds1-13_i386.deb | grep 'lib/libc-2.3.2.so$' > -rw-r--r-- root/root 1243856 2004-05-26 04:40:27 ./lib/libc-2.3.2.so > > Could the library be made read/executable again?
Try it - it crashes. No one's had time to fix this yet. I agree that this is very unfortunate. -- Daniel Jacobowitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
