[Bug 1915250] Re: buildd file owner/group for shared libraries

[Matthias Klose]

fakeroot needs an update for glibc-2.33, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889862

not just the build fix from
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SMQ3RYXEYTVZH6PLQMKNB3NM4XLPMNZO/

discussions of tools not preserving file ownership/permissions:
https://groups.google.com/g/linux.gentoo.dev/c/WG-OLQe3yng/m/ZlqM-QC6BQAJ

binutils discussion:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-February/115241.html

make the packaging helper more robust:
https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=88d054093c1c99a697d95b26bd9aad5bc4d8e170


** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1889862
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889862

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Title:
  buildd file owner/group for shared libraries

Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in debhelper package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fakeroot package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in glibc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  the current state of -proposed creates deb packages with buildd file
  owner/group for shared libraries.

  reported at least for kwayland-integration.

  $ dpkg -c kwayland-integration_5.20.90-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb|grep \.so
  -rw-r--r-- doko/doko     18984 2021-01-21 23:44 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kguiaddons/kmodifierkey/kmodifierkey_wayland.so
  -rw-r--r-- doko/doko     85392 2021-01-21 23:44 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kwindowsystem/KF5WindowSystemKWaylandPlugin.so
  -rw-r--r-- doko/doko     35536 2021-01-21 23:44 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/org.kde.kidletime.platforms/KF5IdleTimeKWaylandPlugin.so

   - in a release pocket, rebuild binutils from proposed. correctly
     restores the file ownership

   - in a release pocket, update glibc from proposed. then rebuild
     binutils from proposed. shows the wrong ownership

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