On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:00:07 +0000, Richard wrote:
I raised this on fedora-devel-list here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-March/thread.html#...
in relationship to this review request:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487527
My opinion is that executable example scripts are fine and that
rpmlint is wrong to warn about them. Probably we should have some
guidelines in this area because currently the situation is a bit
confused.
What do Fedora packager folk think?
Rich.
Warnings are no review blockers. Use option -i when running rpmlint. It
just warns about these files. These executables are stored outside $PATH
and in the documentation tree, so there is no reason they need to be +x.
Such a warning is good, because it can happen that doc files are +x by
mistake. Since executable scripts are easier to execute accidentally than
non-executable scripts, making them -x is safer.