Lintian tag: package-file-is-executable

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The named packaging file is executable.

There is no reason to make the control, changelog or copyright files
executable.

You will also see this tag for a Debhelper-related packaging file that is
marked executable while using a compat level below 9.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debhelper

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
knowthelist 2.3.1-1.1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/docs] 1
knowthelist 2.3.1-1.1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/control] 1
knowthelist 2.3.1-1.1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/copyright] 1
libjcode-perl 2.13-4.1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/changelog] 1
libzstd 1.5.6+dfsg-2 overridden package-file-is-executable [debian/libzstd1-udeb.install] 1
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/docs] 1
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/dirs] 1
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/control] 1
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/copyright] 1
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable [debian/changelog] 1