Re: Regarding /usr/local with private packages

2005-03-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2005-03-08 Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Mardi 8 Mars 2005 12:25, Christian Hammers a écrit : > > Is this behaviour unavoidable? > > well you can manually 'fix' with some pre/postrm magic. Any hints for an elegant solution? Sometimes /usr/local is a symlink, s

Regarding /usr/local with private packages

2005-03-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I feel a little stupid... :) I'm building a private(!) package with files in /usr/local/bin for a host where /usr/local/ is a symlink. Whenever I remove the package the symlink gets removed by dpkg although there are plenty of (non-Debian maintained) files in /usr/local. I guess this i

Re: Preserving admin runlevel modifications on upgrade?

2005-02-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2005-02-08 Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > > > AFAIK the standard way of registering daemons is to run > > > update-rc.d foobar defaults > > > in the postinst script. This sadly resets any changes the administrator > > > made on every upgrade. ... > > read update-rc.d(8), section "INSTALLING

Preserving admin runlevel modifications on upgrade?

2005-02-07 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [please Cc me, I'm not subscribed -thanks] AFAIK the standard way of registering daemons is to run update-rc.d foobar defaults in the postinst script. This sadly resets any changes the administrator made on every upgrade. Calling the update-rc.d command only on (initial) install by puttin

Problems with cylcing dependencies in sid->sarge

2004-08-17 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Two packages, libdbi-perl and libdbd-csv-perl have problems going to testing also each of them seems to be fine and they should be able to go in simultaneously. Can anybody explain to me what's wrong here? Hint: libdbi-perl 1.43-1 Conflicts: libdbd-csv-perl <= 0.2002-1 libd

Problems with cylcing dependencies in sid->sarge

2004-08-17 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Two packages, libdbi-perl and libdbd-csv-perl have problems going to testing also each of them seems to be fine and they should be able to go in simultaneously. Can anybody explain to me what's wrong here? Hint: libdbi-perl 1.43-1 Conflicts: libdbd-csv-perl <= 0.2002-1 libd

Interaktive questions in "postrm purge" allowed?

2004-06-06 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I have a database package that wants to know if it should really also remove the databases themselves when purging the package (just because they are much more important than config files etc). Until now I did this via debconf but a user suggested to do it in postrm because when installing

Interaktive questions in "postrm purge" allowed?

2004-06-06 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I have a database package that wants to know if it should really also remove the databases themselves when purging the package (just because they are much more important than config files etc). Until now I did this via debconf but a user suggested to do it in postrm because when installing

package status overview for developers (was: auto-builders..)

2002-07-21 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:54:43AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > or http://people.debian.org/~igenibel/ Wow, this is great! Can you please convince the Debian webmasters to put this script somewhere more easily accessable on the web pages? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

package status overview for developers (was: auto-builders..)

2002-07-21 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:54:43AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > or http://people.debian.org/~igenibel/ Wow, this is great! Can you please convince the Debian webmasters to put this script somewhere more easily accessable on the web pages? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: chroot and FHS

2001-01-27 Thread Christian Hammers
good jail for poeple trying to get information by INFILE/OUTFILE tricks and in most cases buffer overflow rootshells (as there would be no shells). > Ingo bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet &am

Re: chroot and FHS

2001-01-27 Thread Christian Hammers
good jail for poeple trying to get information by INFILE/OUTFILE tricks and in most cases buffer overflow rootshells (as there would be no shells). > Ingo bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet &am

chroot and FHS

2001-01-24 Thread Christian Hammers
I like to build my mysql package with chroot support and therfore jail it somewhere under /var/lib/mysql and link the log files to /var/log. I either statically link it so that it can be run from /usr/sbin and then live in /var/lib because I don't want to have binaries in /var or hardlink the lib

chroot and FHS

2001-01-24 Thread Christian Hammers
I like to build my mysql package with chroot support and therfore jail it somewhere under /var/lib/mysql and link the log files to /var/log. I either statically link it so that it can be run from /usr/sbin and then live in /var/lib because I don't want to have binaries in /var or hardlink the li

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:49:22AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > * Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but > > > that > > > this should be one quality of a Debian mai

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > (and not at least officially announced as stable) version 3.23.31 for > > potato. > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack s

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:49:22AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: > * Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010122 02:38]: > > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > > > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lac

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > (and not at least officially announced as stable) version 3.23.31 for potato. > > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack somet

Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-21 Thread Christian Hammers
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Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-21 Thread Christian Hammers
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Understanding apt-cache showpkg output (reverse depends)

2000-12-29 Thread Christian Hammers
depend on the old libmysqlclient6. Even more it does *replace* this package (partially). Is there another way to check if any package still depends on a specific package/version? bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Understanding apt-cache showpkg output (reverse depends)

2000-12-29 Thread Christian Hammers
depend on the old libmysqlclient6. Even more it does *replace* this package (partially). Is there another way to check if any package still depends on a specific package/version? bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Contact?

2000-11-20 Thread Christian Hammers
system and if you tell that the New-Maintainers-Managers they normally will accept your application *really* fast (not by policy but according to what people say). bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet &

Re: Contact?

2000-11-20 Thread Christian Hammers
system and if you tell that the New-Maintainers-Managers they normally will accept your application *really* fast (not by policy but according to what people say). bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet &

Re: icon.png => debian/ ?

2000-11-19 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:56:37AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: > What's wrong with binary changes anyway? I might want to include a few > binaries, right? Changes are produced by the "diff" program which can only represent changes to text files, therefore you have to convert all changed binaries to

Re: icon.png => debian/ ?

2000-11-19 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:56:37AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: > What's wrong with binary changes anyway? I might want to include a few > binaries, right? Changes are produced by the "diff" program which can only represent changes to text files, therefore you have to convert all changed binaries to

conflicting with versioned provides possible?

2000-10-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Does dpkg/apt support conflicting with versioned provides? Would be easier for libfooN-dev style packages but I remember that there were problems with dpkg somewhen... bye, -christian- -- Geek: Has 3 friends and trouble meeting new people. Nerd: Has 3 friends, but recyles through

conflicting with versioned provides possible?

2000-10-08 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Does dpkg/apt support conflicting with versioned provides? Would be easier for libfooN-dev style packages but I remember that there were problems with dpkg somewhen... bye, -christian- -- Geek: Has 3 friends and trouble meeting new people. Nerd: Has 3 friends, but recyles through

Help, I get flooded! [Bug#71427: mysql-server]

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Hammers
as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in case that there're more mails in the queue) but none seems to have effort. Any ideas beside simply ignoring/filter them? bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet &

Help, I get flooded! [Bug#71427: mysql-server]

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Hammers
postmaster as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in case that there're more mails in the queue) but none seems to have effort. Any ideas beside simply ignoring/filter them? bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet &

why deos debconf call postrm again?

2000-08-09 Thread Christian Hammers
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why deos debconf call postrm again?

2000-08-09 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-31 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-31 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [forwarded to debian-mentors as the main discussion was there] On Sat, 29.07.00 19:20 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > > Attached you find a patch against dpkg-buildpackage which creates a > > debian/strace.debhelper file when runnin

Re: logrotate suggest/reccommend/depend

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [forwarded to debian-mentors as the main discussion was there] On Sat, 29.07.00 19:20 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Christian Hammers wrote: > > Attached you find a patch against dpkg-buildpackage which creates a > > debian/strace.debhelper file when runnin

Re: logrotate suggest/reccommend/depend

2000-07-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-29 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-29 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-29 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-29 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-26 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-26 Thread Christian Hammers
for testing) quite good. > Ben bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aachen und Dueren Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet & Security for ProfessionalsFax 0241/911879 WESTEND ist CISCO Systems Partner - Premium Certified -- To UNSU

I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-25 Thread Christian Hammers
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I made a script for auto. creating build-depends

2000-07-25 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: New name for a package

2000-07-23 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: New name for a package

2000-07-23 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: two packets providing the same config file?

2000-05-29 Thread Christian Hammers
bmysqlclient6 (<< [current version])" in the new libmysqlclient9 I would be able to enforce that both libs are new and have the replace and then have the same config file so either could be installed w/o problems. bye, -christian- -- Christian HammersWESTEND GmbH - Aache

two packets providing the same config file?

2000-05-28 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Packaging Question

2000-05-21 Thread Christian Hammers
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when's a security fix grave enought for slink

2000-05-20 Thread Christian Hammers
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another ugly thing. RC or not?

2000-05-20 Thread Christian Hammers
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is this RC?

2000-05-20 Thread Christian Hammers
: source package is mysql dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 3.22.32-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 +DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARC

bug report to a slink version

2000-02-12 Thread Christian Hammers
old potato version or should I build a fixed slink version and upload it to distribution "stable" ? bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hamm

shlibdeps warning ?!

2000-02-07 Thread Christian Hammers
h" and the www.debian.org page told me that it belongs to libc6 which is definetly installed. (libc6-dev, too) Any thoughts ? bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation ! Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624 50 3C 52 26 3E 52 E7

Proposing debugging aid in scripts

2000-01-09 Thread Christian Hammers
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directory not empty message

2000-01-09 Thread Christian Hammers
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What is a NMU-fixed-outstanding bug ?

1999-12-02 Thread Christian Hammers
Subject says all. It is something to worry about ? I guess it's because I'm listed as "Christian Hammers" but mail as Christian Hammers. How can I change this ? The latest release has the maintainer right without quotes. bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice o

policy 3.5 and error messages

1999-11-27 Thread Christian Hammers
Starting proxy cache: wwwoffle... failed. Syntax error in /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf line 24. Starting printer spooler: lpd. bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project ht

libtool problem

1999-10-17 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-27 Thread Christian Hammers
UID range) and similar things with it. > Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bye, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-26 Thread Christian Hammers
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nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-24 Thread Christian Hammers
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Again: where to put -doc packages ?

1999-07-28 Thread Christian Hammers
er is not clear. > (some grepping just told me that about 60% is in doc and the rest in the > specific direcories.) read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.

*-doc* to /doc or not to doc ?

1999-07-21 Thread Christian Hammers
% is in doc and the rest in the specific direcories.) BTW: I it matters I ask for the mysql-doc.deb. read you, -christian- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH Tel 0241/701333-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] DPN Verbund-Partner Aachen u. Dueren Fa

Re: dpkg acts strange

1999-06-24 Thread Christian Hammers
gt; Limitation of dpkg. Argh! What would you suggest me to do if I *like* to replace two packages. P.S.: Hello policy group: can you please add this to section 8.3(?) of the packaging manual ? -thx > James read you, -christian- -- Christian Hammers WESTEND GmbH

dpkg acts strange

1999-06-23 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: Upgrading to a new upstream maintainer version

1999-06-22 Thread Christian Hammers
rpm or tgz packages and check if they packed files you missed * test the functionality of the new package * upload with "dupload --to read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project

replacing conflicting packages

1999-06-20 Thread Christian Hammers
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dh_shlibdeps gives strange warning

1999-06-01 Thread Christian Hammers
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dpkg dependency checks are sometimes quite useless ?!

1999-05-14 Thread Christian Hammers
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filenames with more than 100 chars ?

1999-05-12 Thread Christian Hammers
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help: dependency problem

1999-05-04 Thread Christian Hammers
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purging: what should be deleted ?

1999-04-12 Thread Christian Hammers
/spool/wwwoffle ? Should I left that data ? It is not installed by the package... read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidw

solution: images in diff files ?!

1999-03-30 Thread Christian Hammers
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images in diff files ?!

1999-03-28 Thread Christian Hammers
ls package though it is only "standard" and not "essential" ? read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35

Re: jed_0.98.7-13 problems

1999-01-03 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: new maintainer: upload to frozen?

1998-12-06 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: converted config file ?

1998-12-06 Thread Christian Hammers
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Re: cannot build jed_0.98.7-7

1998-12-06 Thread Christian Hammers
ink against "-lslang". > Should I post a bug report ? Naa, you're not fast enough :-) > makoto read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project http://www.debian.org

converted config file ?

1998-12-05 Thread Christian Hammers
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replace ?

1998-07-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! My jed package is now splitted in jed,jedslc,jedsl-source and rgrep. How or whom can I say to remove the old jedsl package which is no longer needed. BTW: Because I have to binary executable packages (x11 and non-x11) I have moved all things necessary for both (including every docu except

buildinfo.debian mit debhelper ?

1998-04-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! How can I make a /usr/doc/package/buildinfo.debian file when using the debhelper tools. read you, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

manpage for X11 binary

1998-04-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! Is there a way that debstd automatically puts the manpage debian/program.1 into debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/man/man1 when it sees that the (only) executable is a X11 program ? Or must I put an install -d and install man... command into my debian/rules ? read you, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRI

waiting time in incoming queue

1998-04-13 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! How long do programs (normally) have to wait in the Incoming queue ? Are Joey & co. just too busy or are there other problems why the kde* programs are starving there =;-) It's not that the waiting bothers me - it's just... the Incoming queue of master.debian.org is AFAIK not mirrored and

ssh while release

1998-03-30 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I yesterday tried to upload my packages using "release". This doesn't work. I had problems with ssh. The "make-ssh-known-hosts" didn't work. Actually it didn't find any key for the specified hosts. I tried all combinations of debian.org, ftp.debian.org, master.debian.org etc. (and the same

files not owned by root after build

1998-03-25 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I have a Problem. When I make a debian package i usually do deb-make build But when doing this logged in as ch, the files in the resulting .deb package are owned by ch.users instead of root.root. I believe it is due to this strange fakeroot program, since the command "chown root.root -R