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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de,  74400-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> 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?