Manfred Wassmann wrote: > > 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? > > But if it was done in the first place dh_fixperms was not required. In > other words, it would be redundant but failsafe and you created debhelper > to make life easier, dind't you? ;)
dh_fixperms ensures that _all_ files you have installed have appropriate permissions. Including documentation files you installed by hand, for example. I have slowly been making debhelper commands set appropriate file permissions w/o dh_fixperms, but it's a very low priority and I doubt I'll do them all. -- see shy jo
