On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:30:58PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > >> How can I fix the "dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad > >> permissions" error? > >> > >> I was simply trying to use pbuilder-satisfydepends with the emacs source > >> package. > > Don't do that? > Why not? Because I don't think it's intended to be used like this. It's not even in /usr/bin. > What should the poster do instead? (using pbuilder-satisfydepends > is a perfectly good route to installing all build-deps for a package > although I wouldn't do it on a real system, only in a disposable chroot) mk-build-deps is one of the usual way to do this. -- WBR, wRAR
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