On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 at 17:37, Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 4 packages from wordpress have a directory metadata conflict.
> Therefore, directory metadata depends on the unpack order.
>
Took me a while to work out what this meant.
$ for i in `ls ../build-area/wordpress*_6.9.4+dfsg1-1_all.deb` ; do dpkg
--contents $i | grep '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/$' ; done
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/
drwxr-xr-x www-data/www-data  0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes/
$ for i in `ls ../build-area/wordpress*_6.9.4+dfsg1-1_all.deb` ; do dpkg
--contents $i | grep '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/$' ; done
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/
drwxr-xr-x www-data/www-data 0 2026-03-18 22:21
./var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/

The base wordpress package gets www-data:www-data but everything else is
root:root
The rules file only changed debian/wordpres/... directory.

 - Craig

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