lintian build failure

Benjamin Drung bdrung at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 3 13:45:02 UTC 2011


Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2011, 14:35 +0100 schrieb Iain Lane:
> 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.

Yes, this is a partial fix for it. The current lintian git head builds
on oneiric. I will merge lintian 2.5.2 once it is released.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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