Re: dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

I wrote:

> A friend made an rpm of software he wrote.  I get an error when I try to
> convert it to .deb format:
> 
> $ alien --noinstall --auto ../gri-2.1.17-1.i386.rpm
> [lots of successful stuff deleted, and then]
> dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29
> Package build failed.
> 
> This was starting from the binaries he made.  I get the same error when I
> start from his sources and run `deb-make' and `build' (after editing the
> debian/ files).

I tracked the bug to /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl

I was using rxvt (locally compiled) instead of xterm (on bo).  The perl
built-in getlogin() returns an empty string when using rxvt rather than
xterm.  My builds were dying on me because of that.

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