On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:31:05AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Was it chown --no-dereference? Perhaps that has been added to chown > recently, though the changelog doesn't say what version I should depend upon.
Yes, that is it! I add some information below: ---begin quote--- dh_strip dh_compress dh_fixperms chown: --no-dereference (-h) is not supported on this system dh_fixperms: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 ---end quote--- Package: debhelper Version: 2.0.80 Versions of the packages debhelper depends on: ii perl 5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii fileutils 3.16-5.3 GNU file management utilities. ii file 3.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" numbers perl5 Not installed or no info I think it would be prudent not to use unstable development utilities in producing the next stable release, because it prevents users from building selected packages locally, although they might work well enough in their mostly stable environment. What problems might arise for the development process I do not dare to guess. Therefore I suggest to either bring debhelper and packages it depends on to a state in which they can be used in a slink environment (maybe putting these packages in proposed-updates) or to prevent them from being used on slink and encourage package maintainers to keep *source* packages in a stable state. A change of source packages to the potato debhelper could be part of a potato re-release. If you would like to recieve a formal bug report, just tell me. Jens
