How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

I have a question.

There are packages which probably need to be changed the owner (or suid)
in .deb packages.

Trying to chown to a user which does not exist will obviously emit an error
like this:


dh_link
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi
chown: `netsaint': invalid user



I have seen several packages which do this and fail,
and what is the proper way to fix that ?



regards,
	junichi