Answer by nimrodm for what user/ file owner to use when creating debian...
These days you can use --root-owner-group instead of fakeroot to create a package where all files will be deployed as root.dpkg-deb --root-owner-group --build $builddir $outputdeb
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The solution in the end was to use fakeroot (sudo apt-get install fakeroot).Then the packager can own the files to be packaged, but when we run:fakeroot dpkg-deb --build debianit spoofs the builder to...
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We are creating a simple binary package for a war file and some scripts using dpkg-deb.One issue is that say we are doing this as a local user called "goofy", then the files in the package will be...
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