On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 12:07:22 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:13:34 -0500 Garrett Kajmowicz wrote: > > One other possibly-related item of note (I can file a separate bug if you > > like) > > and which may have an existing solution: > > Passing in --buildinfo-option=-u/out still results in a -O option which > > refers to the wrong directory. That is, I get the following: > > dpkg-genbuildinfo -u/out --build=binary > > -O../<package>_2.0.6-1_amd64.buildinfo > > dpkg-genbuildinfo: error: cannot write > > ../<package>_2.0.6-1_amd64.buildinfo.new: Permission denied > > > > This resulted from an experiment where I was copying the source code to > > a temporary directory with read/write permissions, but where the parent > > directory was not writable.
> If it is a bug, then it is a separate one for dpkg. I will let Guillem > comment on that. After checking this, I think I'd consider this at most a missing feature, related to the overall request here, and as part of that to be able to specify a different global "upload-files-dir". But for now I think you should be able to overcome this by using the dpkg-buildpackage --buildinfo-file option. Thanks, Guillem
