[Fedora-packaging] Should .so files under python site dir be 755 perms?

[Michael Schwendt]

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.