Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Bug#467024: dpkg: "control directory has bad
permissions" message could be more helpful"):
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Someone building a package should know that the problem with an actual
> > mode of 2755 when compared with a maximum of 0775 is that 2755 has bit
> > 2000 set, and that 2000 is the setgid bit. If there is any confusion
> > at all then the relevant manpages (eg, chmod, I think) ought to answer
> > it.
>
> It's not obvious to everybody and I dislike the way you ditch such user
> problems. Maybe changing the error message is not the best solution, that
> doesn't mean there's nothing to improve.
This is not a `user' problem, in that sense. It is a developer
problem.
> Why doesn't dpkg-deb fix the right on the directory by removing any
> special rights for example?
The developer might have been trying to deliberately create a setgid
directory.
> I think you have no idea how many users may want to recompile packages
> occasionnaly.
The package has a bug if this message happens just because you build
it in a setgid directory.
Ian.
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