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ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:05:08PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
>Hi!
>
>When working on some newlib patches, ran into this:
>
>peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib
>$ quilt refresh
>/usr/share/quilt/refresh: line 253: /usr/share/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws: Permission denied
>Patch patches/wordexp-avoid-strdup.patch is unchanged
>
>peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib
>$ ls -lG /usr/share/quilt/scripts
>total 68
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 peda  6219 May 24  2011 backup-files
>-rw-r--r-- 1 peda 13114 May 24  2011 dependency-graph
>-rw-r-xr-x 1 peda  5910 May 24  2011 edmail
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 peda  4642 May 24  2011 inspect
>-rw-r--r-- 1 peda  3397 May 24  2011 parse-patch
>-rw-r--r-- 1 peda 18389 May 24  2011 patchfns
>-rw-r--r-- 1 peda  3491 May 24  2011 remove-trailing-ws
>
>All those files are scripts with shebangs, and I assume they
>should all be chmod +x, and indeed that fixes the "quilt refresh"
>problem (and a similar problem in "quilt mail" when it tries to
>execute edmail).
>
>Please fix the packaging bug.
>
>Cheers,
>Peter

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