bug in apkg -u merge

HI all;

when I update a package with apkg -u [packagename] and choose M 
"M ) Edit a merged version of the files"

the file permissions are not saved to the original ones.

I've tried with (yet unreleased package) lighthttpd where the
permissions for 
/etc/init.d/lighttpd

are set to 755 (-rwxr-xr-x) in the package. After running update and
edit with M(erge) the permissions are  set to 644 (-rw-r--r--).

The M(erge) command shouldn't change the permissions.

Maybe someone has time to look into this small, but annoying issue?

thx kp

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