"Ilya N. Golubev" <gin(a)mo.msk.ru> writes:
Hi!
The reason of `mime-viewer/extract-content' failures is
incorrect
permissions of files in packages `lib-src' directory, in particular,
`tm-file'. Those files in package tarballs were executable up to
package version 1.34 and ceased being executable in 1.35. Changing
their permissions manually fixes things.
ugh.
Currently their permissions are copied from those in package source
tree, and may be easily lost when copying source trees. Specifying
file permissions explicitly in package source file data would be
safer, but I do not know the way to do so. If I knew, I would just
submit a patch :-/.
IIRC, if someone of the CVS meisters could change the permissions of
the ,v files in the repository, this should solve the problem for
future releases. It looks like the lib-src contents of the gnats
package are bitten as well.
Another possibility would be a special target which allows parts of
the packages to be installed (through INSTALL) with mode +x.
norbert.