Le lundi 11 septembre 2006 14:46, Arjan Oosting a écrit : > Op ma, 11-09-2006 te 22:25 +1000, schreef James Healy: > > Mentors, > > > > I am attempting to build a package and lintian is spitting out a bunch > > of "executable-not-elf-or-script" warnings. > > > > The upstream tarball has an examples directory which I am installing > > into the package using dh_installexamples. None of the examples are > > shell scripts or ELF binaries, yet they seem to untar with executable > > permissions. > > > > What is the best way to modify the permissions when I copy them over? > > Hi, > > Disregard my previous advise. I should have read the man page of > dh_fixperms first: > > dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build > directory (excluding files in the examples/ directory) be mode 644. > > So it seems you have to do it with a call to chmod in your > debian/rules. > > Greetings Arjan
I don't think exec bit in a tarball is right. Best way is to repack upstream sources.
