[Bug 1220125] Re: error setting ownership of symlink `<..>/hot.json.dpkg-new': Operation not permitte

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This bug was fixed in the package click - 0.4.2

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click (0.4.2) saucy; urgency=low

  * Suppress dpkg calls to lchown when not running as root (LP: #1220125).
 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>   Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:12:29 +0100

** Changed in: click (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  error setting ownership of symlink `<..>/hot.json.dpkg-new': Operation
  not permitte

Status in “click” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Trying to install ureadit from the software store, I get:

  (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit (from .../com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit-0.9.2.click) ...
  dpkg: error processing /home/phablet/.local/share/download_manager/{59168886-2ef7-41ed-bae7-1f4c1f98a505}/com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit-0.9.2.click (--install):
   error setting ownership of symlink `/opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit/0.9.2/debug/hot.json.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /home/phablet/.local/share/download_manager/{59168886-2ef7-41ed-bae7-1f4c1f98a505}/com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit-0.9.2.click
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/click", line 84, in <module>
      sys.exit(main())
    File "/usr/bin/click", line 79, in main
      mod.run(args)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/commands/install.py", line 41, in run
      installer.install(package_path, user=options.user)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/install.py", line 264, in install
      env=env, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/subprocess.py", line 544, in check_call
      raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
  subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['dpkg', '--force-not-root', '--force-bad-path', '--instdir', '/opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit/0.9.2', '--admindir', '/opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit/0.9.2/.click', '--path-exclude', '*/.click/*', '--log', '/opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/log', '--no-triggers', '--install', '/home/phablet/.local/share/download_manager/{59168886-2ef7-41ed-bae7-1f4c1f98a505}/com.ubuntu.developer.mhall119.ureadit-0.9.2.click']' returned non-zero exit status 1
  root at ubuntu-phablet:/#

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