control 288279 +pending thanks On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:01:03AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:18:57PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Package: kernel-patch-debian-2.4.27 > > Version: 2.4.27-7 > > Severity: important > > > > The debian kernel patches are installed with permissions 600 instead of > > 644 making it impossible for a normal user to use the patches and most > > people do not compile their kernels as root. Since the patch files had > > the correct permissions in 2.4.27-5 and the change occurred in 2.4.27-6 > > without mention in the changelog I suspect it was an accidental > > oversight. > > Thanks for bringing this to my attention. > Likely the files are being installed with > the prevailing umask, rather than specific > permissions. The newer packages were > built by me, and my umask is 077, so that > would explain the cause of this. > > I will look into making sure the permissions are sensible > for the next release.
This turned out to be the case. I have added dh_fixperms to the rules file for this and other effected packages. The change should turn up in the next release. -- Horms
