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Re: FTBFS, error in .orig.tar.gz



On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:35:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> See http://bugs.debian.org/264172.
> 
> So I don't know what is the standard way to force an upload of a new
> .orig.tar.gz file.  
> 
> Most people don't see the bug, because we apt-get source as non-root,
> so that tar unpackas without setting the setuid bit, and then the
> package builds without errors.
> 
> But the orig.tar.gz does in fact have the setuid bit set, and this is
> in fact a FTBFS error, and violates the release criterea for sarge.
> 
> So my preference is that someone tell me the right way to upload the
> file, so that I can learn.  

You can typically fix such problems without changing the tarball
by adding

 chmod -R u-s .

to the clean target in debian/rules.

-- 
Matt Kraai            kraai@ftbfs.org            http://ftbfs.org/

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