Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> writes:
> [Kees Cook]
>> This doesn't work with source-format-1 packages without adding
>> "chmod" lines for the scripted debhelper config files in the rules
>> file. Perhaps this isn't a big deal since we should all be using
>> source-format-3 anyway.
>
> We should? I prefer to think of this whole debacle as yet another
> reason to never switch to format 3. So long as I stay with format 1,
> "features" like this one will never come back to bite me.
>
> (Well, yes, it could still happen to me with native packages. But
> that's a much smaller attack surface than if I used format 3.)
This has nothing to do with the source format you use other than that
tarballs will retain the x flags and diff.gz will not.
MfG
Goswin
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