Re: texinfo 5.2 dist creates directories that are 777

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> >     $ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz 
> 
> You explicitly told tar to ignore umask.  No surprise.

No surprise, indeed. What actually surprises me is why the tarball
itself contains such unreasonably permissive file modes.  I guess
that's what the original posting was about.  Yet another question
is how came that the upload script accepted it.

Regards,
Sergey