Re: problems rebuilding hello
>
> As an experiment (before working on a package myself) I am trying
> to rebuild the hello binary package. Source is from hello_1.3-13;
> running "debian/rules build" compiles fine, but
> "debian/rules binary-arch" gives, after a while,
>
> dpkg --build debian/tmp ..
> dpkg-deb: building package `hello' in `../hello_1.3-13_i386.deb'.
> dpkg-deb: maintainer script `postinst' has bad permissions 700 (must be
> >=0555 and <=0775)
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
>
> Seems a bit strange; 0555 <= 700 <= 0775 as far as I can see.
>
> [8:27pm] root@hamishpc:~/tmp/hello-1.3# ls -l debian/
> total 15
> -rw------- 1 root root 2561 Nov 8 20:22 changelog
> -rw------- 1 root root 612 Nov 8 20:22 control
> -rw------- 1 root root 2412 Nov 8 20:22 copyright
> -rw------- 1 root root 37 Nov 8 20:26 files
> -rw------- 1 root root 122 Nov 8 20:22 postinst
> -rw------- 1 root root 68 Nov 8 20:22 prerm
> -rwx--x--x 1 root root 2171 Nov 8 20:22 rules
> -rw------- 1 root root 33 Nov 8 20:26 substvars
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 8 20:26 tmp
>
>
>
> thanks,
> Hamish
>
It is probably meant to be compared digit by digit: 0 <= 0 <= 0, 5 <= 7 <= 7,
but 5 !<= 0 <= 7.
^ Note the NOT operation.
I don't know why the permissions must be rx for all, however.
Either it's a bug in the hello package or a bug in dpkg, I dare say.
Courageous,
MartinS
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