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Re: Interesting dpkg issue, plus thoughts...

From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> The problem came when the build failed telling me it couldn't chown the
> substvars file because it didn't exist. (it was there, of course) I
> rebooted into the old development system and the packages built fine. Both
> the new and the old systems have the same version of dpkg (1.4.0.8) so
> that isn't the problem.

You don't say where the problem is, or even what program issued the
complaint. You imply that debmake is invoking a dpkg tool incorrectly.
When last I looked into this, I thought it was a Perl bug. There's a

	chown(@fuser, $file) || syserr("chown of $file")

statement in a few of the dpkg tools that has been a problem in the past
for some reason I don't understand. Can you tell us why it is breaking?
Is this the fault of debmake, your perl version, or something else?

	Thanks

	Bruce
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