Bug#638278: Bits from the Lintian maintainers
Niels Thykier dixit:
>I did (BCC it), the bug is #638278. I took the liberty of marking you
>as the submitter.
OK, no problem.
>Emails in my inbox has a way of disappearing even if I tag them TODO
>etc, so when I can I file bugs if I cannot handle them immediately.
Yeah, still before doing all the BTS stuff I like to ask
off-“list” first for some things. I met many Debian pak-
kage maintainers who prefer the BTS for even simple pat-
ches, though, but I am not one of them myself…
>> Yes, probably. But you could just map 0 to root for both
>> uid and gid (everything else is not standardised anyway).
>That could solve a lot it, if done in the method reading the tar index.
That was the idea. And it really only works (reliably) with
the uid and gid 0 – although if Debian standardises certain
other uids or gids, that could be supported too. (On the
other hand, almost all files, if not all, in a DEB would be
root-owned anyway.)
bye,
//mirabilos
--
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but
what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be-
ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there
was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :) -- Ted Unangst über *fs
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