New comment by CameronNemo on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/38682#issuecomment-1217135722 Comment: Upstream migrated from autotools to meson. Autotools was setting the bit before, now meson does not set it as setuid so we have to set it manually. That is my best guess. Sorry I broke your use case, hopefully the fix gets merged soon.