Re: [PATCH v2] Do not install shell libraries executable

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> How much would it hurt the distro packagers, if we don't take this patch
>>> before 1.7.0?  If this would help a lot, let's give it a bit higher
>>> priority and make sure 1.7.0 ships with (a corrected version of) it;
>>> otherwise I'd say we should not merge this before 1.7.0.
>>
>> Given that Peff’s fix is in, I don’t think it is needed at all.  So I
>> would say, better to let it wait.
>
> I was referring to this from your original:
> 
>     It was also confusing dpkg-shlibdeps, so I recently came up with
>     this fix.  Both fixes seem like good changes to me, and both
>     could be applied.  Your fix has the virtue of being shorter,
>     hence safer.
> 
> Is Jeff's mergetool-lib change enough to address this issue as well?

I just checked; looks like I was confusing a few issues.

 - dpkg-shlibdeps does not like to be fed scripts, period.  That
   has nothing to do with this.

 - debian/rules in the git-core package feeds every file in
   /usr/bin and gitexecdir that doesn’t start with #! to 'strip'.
   Jeff's change helps that; my fix has nothing to do with it.

 - some other tool must have been happier with these files not
   being executable, but I cannot reproduce this or find it now.

I wrote that patch late at night, and unfortunately, I cannot justify it
to myself now.  With Jeff’s change applied, there is no obvious breakage
that it fixes.  If a problem comes up again, I will let you know.

Embarrassed,
Jonathan