The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit ee21a3b9443f7a7a643fa1d41bf1ba2b93e32ccb
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Jun 26 02:10:53 2009 +0200
man: Document in dpkg-statoverride the format to specify mode
Closes: #534551
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d7e4b83..cabc83f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Rewrite dpkg-name in perl.
* Do not close already closed files in some error conditions in libdpkg.
* Use the correct units (KiB) in dpkg-split when referring to partsize.
+ * Document in dpkg-statoverride(8) that mode needs to be specified in
+ octal. Closes: #534551
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Unset TAR_OPTIONS when creating/extracting tar archives for source
diff --git a/man/dpkg-statoverride.8 b/man/dpkg-statoverride.8
index 7c93709..c0a1e8e 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-statoverride.8
+++ b/man/dpkg-statoverride.8
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Add an override for \fBfile\fR. \fBfile\fR does not need to
exist
when this command is used; the override will be stored and used later.
Users and groups can be specified by their name (for example \fBroot\fR
or \fBnobody\fR), or by their number by prepending the number with a
-`\fB#\fR' (for example \fB#0\fR or \fB#65534\fR).
+`\fB#\fR' (for example \fB#0\fR or \fB#65534\fR). The \fImode\fR needs
+to be specified in octal.
If \-\-update is specified and \fBfile\fR exists, it is immediately
set to the new owner and mode.
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