Hi all, after banging my head for hours wondering why one given directory in a pacakge I work on did not have the correct ownership (www-data), I realised that that the answer is in the Policy, footnote #71.
"... the permissions and ownership of directories already on the system does not change on install or upgrade of packages. This makes sense, since otherwise common directories like /usr would always be in flux. ..." http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f71 So what happened is that first I made a (local) package with the wrong permissions, and then any attempt to correct this was doomed as long as I would not remove the package before installing a new version testing a variation on how to call chown. After a few hours of more thinking, I still do not understand the footnote #71 of the Policy. Could somebody post an explanation? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
