On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:58:17PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Julian Gilbey: > > > Is something in [...] (such as dh_fixperms) changing the permissions? > > Ah! dh_fixperms did indeed fiddle with the permissions, after moving the > chmod downwards it works just fine. Thanks!
I quote from my inital message on the subject: > No. Do the following in debian/rules: > chmod 2755 /usr/bin/jwhois > # at some later point > dh_suidregister > # and later still > dh_fixperms Note the dh_fixperms is at the end of this sequence, and must be: Debian packages should not ship with any special bits set (except for symlinks and directories). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg