Ian Jackson wrote: : : Oh dear. : : Heiko Schlitterman says that he's changed some programs (he doesn't : say exactly which) to change the ownership of debian/files and : debian/substvars.
: case `umask` in : *77) echo >&2 \ : 'dpkg-buildpackage: warning: bad umask will probably break build' : ;; : esac Why? If we can handle such case (umask != *77), why we don't handle this? Grep in scripts/ for 'fowner' controllib.pl:@fowner = (getpwnam(getlogin()))[2,3]; dpkg-distaddfile.pl:chown(@fowner, "$fileslistfile.new") dpkg-gencontrol.pl:chown(@fowner, "$fileslistfile.new") dpkg-shlibdeps.pl:chown(@fowner, "$varlistfile.new") || I think, this behaviour is that, what would be expected. Please correct me, If I'm wrong. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]