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dpkg doesn't change permissions on directories during upgrades?



To fix a bug, I changed the permissions on a directory in my xbl pacakge. 
Old:
drwxr-xr-x root/games        0 Dec 21 00:29 1996 var/lib/games/xbl/
New:
drwxrwsr-x root/games        0 Dec 29 14:01 1996 var/lib/games/xbl/

However, when I upgrade, dpkg doesn't modify the permissions of
/var/lib/games/xbl:

[root@kite] /home/joey/debian/build>ls -ld /var/lib/games/xbl
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     games        1024 Dec 21 00:29 /var/lib/games/xbl/
[root@kite] /home/joey/debian/build>dpkg -i xbl_1.0f-5_i386.deb 
(Reading database ... 24124 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xbl 1.0f-5 (using xbl_1.0f-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbl ...
Setting up xbl (1.0f-5) ...

[root@kite] /home/joey/debian/build>ls -ld /var/lib/games/xbl
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     games        1024 Dec 21 00:29 /var/lib/games/xbl/

Is this intentional? Or a bug in dpkg?

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