Niels Thykier dixit: >I did (BCC it), the bug is #638278. I took the liberty of marking you >as the submitter.
OK, no problem. >Emails in my inbox has a way of disappearing even if I tag them TODO >etc, so when I can I file bugs if I cannot handle them immediately. Yeah, still before doing all the BTS stuff I like to ask off-“list” first for some things. I met many Debian pak- kage maintainers who prefer the BTS for even simple pat- ches, though, but I am not one of them myself… >> Yes, probably. But you could just map 0 to root for both >> uid and gid (everything else is not standardised anyway). >That could solve a lot it, if done in the method reading the tar index. That was the idea. And it really only works (reliably) with the uid and gid 0 – although if Debian standardises certain other uids or gids, that could be supported too. (On the other hand, almost all files, if not all, in a DEB would be root-owned anyway.) bye, //mirabilos -- [...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be- ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :) -- Ted Unangst über *fs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

