Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts
* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [120513 18:52]:
> Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> writes:
> > * Andreas Barth [2012-05-13 11:06 +0200]:
> >> and let dpkg handle all of that?
>
> > This doesn't look like a task that should be done by dpkg itself;
> > instead debhelper or dpkg-maintscript-helper could be used.
>
> Agreed. Putting it directly in the dpkg C code doesn't seem like a good
> separation of tasks, although it needs to be closely coordinated so that
> we can use the dpkg unpack stage to set ownership.
"dpkg" doesn't mean dpkg C code, but part of the dpkg ecosystem
(putting it in debhelper is better than nothing but as you pointed out
not the real thing either).
Andi
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