How do I control ownership of installed package files?

[Steve McWilliams <stevemc@Radix.Net>]

Hello,

I have read through the debian packaging documentation and am playing
around with it currently, however I have not yet figured out how to
control the ownership of files installed from a binary debian package.
I realize that normally installed package files should be owned by root,
however I assume that exceptions are allowed for.

When I create my package, using "dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot", the
relevent debian/tmp files are owned by my user account (not root), however
after running "dpkg -i <package_name>" as root, these files are installed
with root ownership.

Note that I used dh_make to create my initial debian control files.  The
debian/rules file had a reference to dh_fixperms which seemed like it
might be the culprit here.  However, commenting out the call to dh_fixperms
does not seem to make a difference.

I know the problem could be solved via a postinst script, but that doesn't
seem like a good solution to me.

Thanks in advance,
Steve McWilliams
stevemc@radix.net