The package resulting from building the Debian package contains the right perms (checkrhost is X for everybody), so I think that this should be sync rather than a merge. this is the reason why the change is not required anymore (extracted from the dh_fixperms manpage:
"It makes all files in the standard bin and sbin directories, usr/games/ and etc/init.d executable (since v4)"
The package resulting from building the Debian package contains the right perms (checkrhost is X for everybody), so I think that this should be sync rather than a merge. this is the reason why the change is not required anymore (extracted from the dh_fixperms manpage:
"It makes all files in the standard bin and sbin directories, usr/games/ and etc/init.d executable (since v4)"
Thanks,
Fabrice