[Bug 1241001] Re: Permissions incorrect in httplib

[Cefn]

A workaround which resolved the problem for me (but seems like it's
crazy I would have to do this) was running the following commands...

cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

sudo chmod a+r httplib2-0.8-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/*
python_dateutil-2.1-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/*

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Title:
  Permissions incorrect in httplib

Status in “python-httplib2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The permissions for files installed by httplib and dateutil seem to be
  incorrect. I compared read permissions across all the dist-packages
  and they all show "user read" permissions apart from these two. The
  log of permissions is attached. Forcing a reinstall via Synaptic
  didn't fix the issue. When running the standard instructions at
  http://kartograph.org/docs/kartograph.py/install-ubuntu.html I
  discovered the error, when load_entry_point could not inspect the
  toplevel.txt file, as below, and sure enough, httplib's toplevel.txt
  file was readable only by user root and group staff.

  $ kartograph world.json -o world.svgTraceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/bin/kartograph", line 5, in <module>
      from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2825, in <module>
      add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 710, in subscribe
      callback(dist)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2825, in <lambda>
      add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2257, in activate
      self.insert_on(path)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2364, in insert_on
      self.check_version_conflict()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2403, in check_version_conflict
      for modname in self._get_metadata('top_level.txt'):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2251, in _get_metadata
      for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1219, in get_metadata_lines
      return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1211, in get_metadata
      return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info,name))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1326, in _get
      stream = open(path, 'rb')
  IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2-0.8-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/top_level.txt'

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: python-httplib2 0.8-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 17 14:55:44 2013
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: python-httplib2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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