Re: texinfo 5.2 dist creates directories that are 777

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi Karl.

>     Is it a bug or a feature that the Texinfo 5.2 tarball extracts with
>     directories being world writable?
>
> Feature.  Well, at least it's intentional.
>
> Anyone who cares should set umask before unpacking, as usual.
> Seems to me.

Something's messed up somewhere. Ubuntu 12.04:

        $ umask 022
        $ tar -xpzf /usr/local/src/Gnu/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz 
        $ ls -ld texinfo-5.2 
        drwxrwxrwx 15 arnold arnold 4096 Sep 27 02:06 texinfo-5.2

"Surprise, surprise, surprise!"

Besides, haven't the Autconf / Automake guys been making releases that
change the default permissions on directories in tar balls to avoid this?
(I admit I haven't followed in close detail.)

Thanks,

Arnold