Re: [PATCH] install-info: Fix dir file mode being restricted

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 06:57:40PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes please.  After you commit this I will cherry-pick to the release
> > branch as this is a severe bug in install-info.  I had never tested it
> > as root, only with a regular user account, so hadn't noticed the
> > permissions problem.
> 
> Done.  Is this problem out in a stable release?  If so, I'll need to
> backport it in Gentoo, too, but I haven't seen any reports of similar
> issues.

I now have failures with the install-info tests checks, I haven't
investigated, but my feeling is that something needs to be updated after
this change.

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Pat