This is very strange. Let's see if the friendly folks on d-devel can help. Cheers, FJP
On Friday 20 June 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > But there should be no reason for these terminfo files to be > executable. And if I rebuild debian-installer-utils, they are not. fjp > did the last debian-installer-utils upload, and I think his system has > executable terminfo files, somehow, since they've crept into the > di-utils-terminfo udeb. $ ls -l /lib/terminfo/*/* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1481 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/a/ansi -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1502 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/c/cons25 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1529 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/c/cygwin -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 308 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/d/dumb [...] $ find /lib/terminfo/*/* -type f | xargs sudo chmod a-x $ ls -l /lib/terminfo/*/* -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1481 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/a/ansi -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1502 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/c/cons25 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1529 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/c/cygwin -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 308 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/d/dumb [...] $ sudo aptitude reinstall ncurses-base $ ls -l /lib/terminfo/*/* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1481 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/a/ansi -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1502 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/c/cons25 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1529 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/c/cygwin -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 308 2008-06-16 22:40 /lib/terminfo/d/dumb [...] Strange thing is that: $ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.6+20080614-1_all.deb | \ grep "^[^l].*/[acd]/[acd]" -rw-r--r-- root/root 1481 2008-06-16 22:40 ./lib/terminfo/a/ansi -rw-r--r-- root/root 1502 2008-06-16 22:40 ./lib/terminfo/c/cons25 -rw-r--r-- root/root 1529 2008-06-16 22:40 ./lib/terminfo/c/cygwin -rw-r--r-- root/root 308 2008-06-16 22:40 ./lib/terminfo/d/dumb So, it looks like the ncurses-base postinst is somehow to blame. Only it does not have a postinst... /me is confused Is dpkg doing something weird here maybe?
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