Subject: bug#74400: 31.0.50; tramp-loaddefs.elc suddenly owned by root

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:54:33 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:09:20 +0100
> 
> My example doesn't claim to be the recipe which happened to Michael. But
> it shows, that 'sudo make install' could create root-owned files in the
> build dir, and that's what this bug report is about.
> 
> I don't know whether it is important enough to change something. But we
> should know (and document), that it could happen.

If it's important enough, maybe.

I think "make install" uses chmod to give everyone access to the file
because some files could be owned by root.  If that works, why is the
ownership important?