On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 15:23:46 -0400, rol...@johnsmith-book.com wrote: > On 2020-09-17 05:42, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > > which was filed against the dpkg package: > > > > #970451: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb: error: maintainer script 'postrm' has bad > > permissions 644 (must be >=0555 and <=0775) > > > > It has been closed by Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>. > > > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > > better one in a separate message then please contact Guillem Jover > > <guil...@debian.org> by > > replying to this email. > > This is a bug. The orignial script ran for years using 644.
This behavior (not a bug in dpkg-deb :) has existed since at least 1996: <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/tree/dpkg-deb/build.c?id=1b80fb16c22db72457d7a456ffbf1f70a8dfc0a5#n129> when the code was first tracked in a version control system (it might have existed even earlier): <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/diff/dpkg-deb/build.c?id=1b80fb16c22db72457d7a456ffbf1f70a8dfc0a5> <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=1b80fb16c22db72457d7a456ffbf1f70a8dfc0a5> So I assume something else changed in your end, then. Thanks, Guillem
