On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:38:58AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         There is nothing in policy that says that file permissions are
>  to be preserved. Indeed, dpkg works this way: if the user does not
>  change a conffile, but only the permissions, and there is a change in
>  the conffile in the package, the permission changes to the conffile
>  shall be lost.
> 
>       I see no reason for fvwm to go above and beyong in trying to
>  have a different behaviour than the packaging system itself.

Hello Manoj, 
I am not sure how this is related to the bug

If the user remove /etc/menu-methods/fvwm this piece of code will fail:

if [ ! -x /etc/menu-methods/fvwm ]; then
    chmod a+x /etc/menu-methods/fvwm
fi

Do you agree with that ?

For more detail, Please see menu manual section 5:
In particular


     This script should not be executable in the package.  Instead the
     `postinst' should add the execute bit and then run `update-menus' (if
     it is executable).

     Similarly, the `postrm' script when called with option ``remove''
     should remove the execute bit and run `update-menus' (if it is
     executable).

This is to avoid the menu-method to run before the window manager is
configured. This might or might not be an issue for fvwm.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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