[Slackbuilds-users] Why the repository doesn't have SlackBuild file set to 755?

[B Watson]

On 8/12/17, Azure Zanculmarktum <zanculmarktum at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just curious why none of the files inside category/package/
> doesn't have 755, all of it were set to 644, while inside
> category/package.tar.gz, it has 755 (i.e. SlackBuild file).

At a guess... because they're hosted on a web server, and there are
ways the server could be (mis)configured that would allow +x files to
be executed instead of displayed (removing +x is sort of a safety net).