Re: security: install 5.93/5.97 ignores --mode on existing dirs if no leading 4th byte

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 06:29:56PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Consider upgrading.  The latest stable version is 6.9, and there have been
> intentional changes in this area.  Quoting from NEWS:

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:13:04PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> That bug was fixed quite a while ago.  I don't recall exactly when,
> but probably as a followup to Debian bug 37150.  It shouldn't be a
> problem with Coreutils 6.9 (the current version).

Thanks for the answer. I'm wondering why debian unstable still has 5.97-5.3
(I tried upgrading before posting, and 5.97-5.3 was the latest I got)

I'll try and find out why it's so out of date

Thanks,
Marc
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