Manfred Wassmann wrote: > Well, I'm not that familiar with debhelper yet. I mistakenly assumed that > dh_installdocs would set the permissions of the installed files. > If it just copies that's nuts. > BTW I think it would be more suggestive if a command that installs doc > files would set the permissions right away. Is there any good reason that > it doesn't?
Well, um, partly so that if dh_installdocs does not do what you want, you can work around it and still be assured of proper permissions once you run dh_fixperms? -- see shy jo
