Deb packages stay with my username

Question

When I run the command:

dpkg -b myprog

and

sudo dpkg -i myprog.deb

The file in /usr/bin and /usr/share/, etc. stay with my username as owner and creator of the file when all the other are with root as owner and creator. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try chown'ing all the files to root before running dpkg -b.

Packages are normally created with dpkg-buildpackage because it can use fakeroot to insure all files are owned by root.