ACK/cmnt: [Xenial][SRU][PATCH 0/1] Restore execute permissions

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Fri Feb 7 15:22:08 UTC 2020


On 2020-02-05 09:24, Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861973
> 
> Debian source package diffs cannot represent that a file should
> be executable. This is a problem for us if a patch adds a script
> which is invoked directly during the build, as happened with a
> recent stable update for 4.14. Update gen-auto-reconstruct to
> detect this situation and restore the execute permissions in the
> reconstruct script. Exclude the debian packaging directories as
> the scripts here already account for the loss of execute
> permissions.
> 
> Seth Forshee (1):
>   UBUNTU: [Debian] autoreconstruct - add resoration of execute
>     permissions
> 
>  debian/scripts/misc/gen-auto-reconstruct | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 

Good catch.

I have fixed the bug nomination, this change will be applied
to be shipped by the 'linux' source package and not
'linux-signed'.

Thanks!


Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>



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