diff --git a/emacs.changes b/emacs.changes
index d740251..db9e554 100644
--- a/emacs.changes
+++ b/emacs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 12 19:18:18 CET 2007 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Make .gnu-emacs writable for the user (#229883)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 12 16:25:18 CET 2007 - werner@suse.de
 
diff --git a/emacs.spec b/emacs.spec
index d72fc0c..0285331 100644
--- a/emacs.spec
+++ b/emacs.spec
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Requires:       emacs-info ctags emacs_program
 Provides:       ge_site ge_exec
 Autoreqprov:    on
 Version:        21.3
-Release:        260
+Release:        261
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 Summary:        GNU Emacs Base Package
 Source:         emacs-21.3.tar.bz2
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ mkdir -p %{buildroot}%(dirname %{appDefaultsFile})
 cp -p %{S:2} %{buildroot}%{appDefaultsFile}
 pushd ../
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/skel
-install -m 0444 %{S:4} %{buildroot}/etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
+install -m 0644 %{S:4} %{buildroot}/etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
 tar cf - site-lisp/ | tar xvvf - -C %{buildroot}/usr/share/emacs/
 chmod -R a+r %{buildroot}/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/
 popd
@@ -2399,6 +2399,8 @@ done
 
 %changelog -n emacs
 * Fri Jan 12 2007 - werner@suse.de
+- Make .gnu-emacs writable for the user (#229883)
+* Fri Jan 12 2007 - werner@suse.de
 - Make emacs find its app-default file (bug #234026)
 * Thu Dec 14 2006 - schwab@suse.de
 - Fix patterns for auto-mode-list additions.