dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

[krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl Sackett)]

Regarding the -r option for dpkg-buildpackage, are there any examples of what's
called for here?  Is the gain-root-command something each developer provides
for himself, or is there a command or shell somewhere that performs this
function?

Invoked as root, dpkg-buildpackage works fine.  But when I try to unpack the
new package this is what happens:

mycroft$ dpkg-source -x exmh_1.6.9-1.dsc
dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with
newline in its name (exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.or
ig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest of output deleted)

This happens with the packages I build and with the hello package I downloaded
from master.
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Karl Sackett                                           krs@caos.aamu.edu
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