tags 264948 confirmed fixed-upstream thanks At Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:31:01 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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.
At least it should be fixed in the next glibc cvs update after sarge. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
