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Re: dh-make-perl and permissions



On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:55:49PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm getting this error when trying to build the .deb.  Am I doing something incorrectly?
> 
> dh_installdocs README TODO examples/README
> cp: cannot create regular file `debian/libxml-rss-perl/usr/share/doc/libxml-rss-perl/README': Permis
> dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256
> make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1
> Cannot create deb package
> 
> moseley@bumby:~$ ls -l XML-RSS-1.02/debian/libxml-rss-perl/usr/share/doc/libxml-rss-perl/README
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 moseley  moseley      2078 2002-11-12 03:55 XML-RSS-1.02/debian/libxml-rss-perl/usr/share/doc/libxml-rss-perl/README
> 
> Is dh_installdocs trying to copy the README twice?

Try it with DH_VERBOSE=1 set in your environment. Perhaps you have a
debian/docs or debian/libxml-rss-perl.docs file?

555 is an odd set of permissions to have, though.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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