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copied!<p>I'm trying to build a Debian package, but I've got this weird pseudo-directory problem. I run:</p> <pre><code>$ fakeroot debian/rules binary </code></pre> <p>I've built the binary before, but something must have changed on my system. Now dh_md5sums errors out and returns:</p> <pre><code>md5sum: include: Is a directory dh_md5sums: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 </code></pre> <p>Indeed, <code>include</code> is a directory. So, I added some debugging statements to dh_md5sums, to figure out why <code>include</code> was being hashed despite the line that was supposed to filter out directories. Adding:</p> <pre><code>doit("ls", "-l", "$tmp"); </code></pre> <p>shows that, indeed, <code>include</code> is not a directory when dh_md5sums is run:</p> <pre><code>total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-18 13:36 bin -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-18 13:36 include drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-18 13:36 var # some directories removed for brevity's sake </code></pre> <p>So, can I remove it? I added:</p> <pre><code>doit("rm", "$tmp/include"); </code></pre> <p>and got:</p> <pre><code>rm: cannot remove `debian/myproject/include': Is a directory </code></pre> <p>maybe it... turned into a directory? I added another <code>ls -l</code> below the <code>rm</code> and got:</p> <pre><code>total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-18 13:36 bin -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-18 13:36 include drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-18 13:36 var </code></pre> <p>and when the scripts are done running, I can do:</p> <pre><code>$ ls -l drwxr-xr-x 2 x x 4096 2009-06-18 13:48 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 x x 4096 2009-06-18 13:48 include drwxr-xr-x 3 x x 4096 2009-06-18 13:48 var </code></pre> <p>...which is weird, as <code>include</code> becomes a directory and the ownership changes (<code>x</code> is my username). <code>include</code> even contains all the header files it's supposed to.</p> <p>Does anyone know what's going on?</p>

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