[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For situations where you need a file in debian/tmp to be owned by >somebody other than root, don't use fakeroot to build the package, >because it forces everything to look like it's owned by root. Use >sudo.
That's not true: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ fakeroot [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# chown bin foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l foo -rw-rw-r-- 1 bin root 0 Jul 19 21:40 foo -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]