Re: setgid stuff

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:58:17PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Julian Gilbey:
> 
> > Is something in [...] (such as dh_fixperms) changing the permissions?
> 
> Ah! dh_fixperms did indeed fiddle with the permissions, after moving the
> chmod downwards it works just fine. Thanks!

I quote from my inital message on the subject:

> No.  Do the following in debian/rules:
>         chmod 2755 /usr/bin/jwhois
>         # at some later point
>         dh_suidregister
>         # and later still
>         dh_fixperms

Note the dh_fixperms is at the end of this sequence, and must be:
Debian packages should not ship with any special bits set (except for
symlinks and directories).

   Julian

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