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Re: fakeroot is completely broken



On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > A warning for all of you who have uploaded packages built with fakeroot
> > 0.4.0-1. It doesn't fake it's root, so it builds packages with files with 
> > you as the owner. I've retracted my three uploads today...
> 
> Well, it works for me correctly. I used 'debuild' from devscripts.

It works fine here too.  Both the tarball and the package files have
sensible owners.  I do my builds with "fakeroot dpkg-buildpackge" .  Can
anyone else confirm the problem?

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