Permission issues in multiple packages

Andrew Schulman andrex.e.schulman@gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 19:48:10 GMT 2025


On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:48:19 +0900, ggl329 via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>As Jon mentioned in the following mail, something may go wrong in the VM for building packages.
>https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-April/257948.html
>
>Many files/directories don't have permissions for non-privileged users.
>These packages are examples I found. Other packages may have same issues.
>
>* emacs-common-30.1-1 (subdirs.el is not readable)
>* libpng16-1.6.47-1 (The impact is minor)
>* screen-5.0.0-1 (utf8 settings?)

Thanks for flagging this. I've always understood that setup (or cygport?) sets
suitable permissions on package files, but if that's not true, we maintainers
will need guidance on how to set them.

Andrew (screen maintainer)








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