The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit c5dbb9bf21a0ff70c0b350e66fef70cab88bfb7d
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Jan 7 07:12:25 2009 +0200
man: Document that dpkg-deb -x modifies the extraction directory perms
Closes: #502496
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4c10348..ca0a86e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-01-07 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
+
+ * man/dpkg-deb.1: Document that -x will modify the extraction
+ directory permissions.
+
2009-01-05 Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
* src/main.c (setobsolete): Use warning instead of fprintf call.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e521faa..2537bc0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Make dpkg log files user readable. Closes: #480556
* Clarify in the start-stop-daemon man page that the signal sent by default
is TERM not KILL. Closes: #507568
+ * Warn in dpkg-deb man page that -x will modify the extraction directory
+ permissions. Closes: #502496
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps's error message when a library can't be found to
diff --git a/man/dpkg-deb.1 b/man/dpkg-deb.1
index 8f91f56..bb08dc9 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-deb.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-deb.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH dpkg\-deb 1 "2008-08-18" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
+.TH dpkg\-deb 1 "2009-01-07" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite"
.SH NAME
dpkg\-deb \- Debian package archive (.deb) manipulation tool
.
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ result in a correct installation! Use
to install packages.
.I directory
-(but not its parents) will be created if necessary.
+(but not its parents) will be created if necessary, and its permissions
+modified to match the contents of the package.
.TP
.BR \-X ", " \-\-vextract " \fIarchive directory\fP"
Is like
--
dpkg's main repository
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