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 level tag count information
ftpcopy 0.6.7-9 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/changelog]
libzstd 1.5.7+dfsg-1.1 overridden package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/libzstd1-udeb.install]
pcp 6.3.8-1 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/changelog]
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/docs]
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/control]
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/dirs]
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/copyright]
stardata-common 0.8+nmu1 warning package-file-is-executable 1 [debian/changelog]