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



On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:12:41PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:35:16PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry, that should probably be

 chmod -R g-s .

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

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