non-standard-executable-perm
Executables that are not setuid or setgid should always have a mode of 0755. Since anyone can obtain the executable by downloading the Debian package and extracting it, restricting access serves little purpose.
For more information please consult:
- Permissions and owners (Section 10.9) in the Debian Policy Manual
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit d219a5a. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check files/permissions.
Visibility: warning