On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:01:09 +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: > Hi, > > I have a python-pygit2 review, in this review the reviewer asked me to > change the perms of the .so files from 755 to 644. In fact I've done > this for many other packages, but I want to ask if this is really > needed? No, the reviewer is mistaken. It would be a packaging bug, and you will need to fix your "many other packages", too. 1) The shared libs don't get stripped, if they are not executable. 2) The -debuginfo package generation doesn't work either, if the libs are not executable. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging