lintian build failure

Iain Lane laney at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 3 13:35:25 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 03:25:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Benjamin,
> 
> Benjamin Drung [2011-07-25 16:56 +0200]:
> > +E: control-files-weird-files: control-file-has-bad-permissions triggers 0664 != 0644
> 
> This is most likely because in oneiric the standard umask for
> non-system users is 002 now, for users which are in a private user
> group. I. e. new files get created with 664 permissions now.
> 
> As the "buildd" user is such a user, this would explain the test suite
> failure. As the test suite seems to assume a 022 umask, I suggest
> running the tests with an "umask 022" statement.

I believe this is fixed by

  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commit;h=f5b9b28a55b6a786fd6192b9fde06bef19206e30

but I haven't tested it. If someone has time, they could cherry-pick
this commit and upload to oneiric.

Cheers,

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