Re: dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad permissions
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:30:58PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>> >> How can I fix the "dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad
>> >> permissions" error?
>> >>
>> >> I was simply trying to use pbuilder-satisfydepends with the emacs
>> >> source package.
>> > Don't do that?
>> Why not?
> Because I don't think it's intended to be used like this. It's not even in
> /usr/bin.
Actually, it's pretty much exactly what it is for -- pbuilder calls it or
one of the other variants to install build-deps. But as I said, I wouldn't
use it on a real system.
>> What should the poster do instead? (using pbuilder-satisfydepends
>> is a perfectly good route to installing all build-deps for a package
>> although I wouldn't do it on a real system, only in a disposable chroot)
> mk-build-deps is one of the usual way to do this.
sure. I know that. I just don't understand why that suggestion wasn't in the
first message. If you're going to go to the trouble of replying to a
question on the mentors mailing list, why not answer the question? "Don't do
that" has precisely zero informational value but has more than a hint of
(unwelcome) hostility.
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