Re: Bug#20400: elm-me+ fails attempts to open mailbox...

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl> writes:

> I just peeked at the postinst in the elm .deb:
> 
> #!/bin/sh -e
> # Permission processing inserted by debmake on Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:02:24 +0100
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/suidregister ]; then
>     suidregister -s elm-me+ /usr/bin/elm root root 2755
> else
>     chown root.root /usr/bin/elm
>     chmod 2755 /usr/bin/elm
> fi
> 
> I guess the problem is partly the absence of elm's own postinst,
> which leads debmake to add its "default" postinst, which in this
> case does The Wrong Thing.

I don't know why you've got that posinst; both the m68k and i386 one
have root.mail not root.root.  What version of debmake did you use to
build the package?

-- 
James


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