[maker-deb] Failed to create DEB package

[hron84]

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Electron Forge version

7.6.0

Electron version

v33.3.1

Operating system

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

Last known working Electron Forge version

No response

Expected behavior

DEB package corretly builds

Actual behavior

❯ Making distributables
  ✖ Making a deb distributable for linux/x64
    › Command failed with a non-zero return code (2):
      fakeroot dpkg-deb --build /tmp/electron-installer--51997-DZStMEFPGauK/youtube-desktop_1.0.5_amd64
      dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad permissions 750 (must be >=0755 and <=0775)

Steps to reproduce

I want to build https://github.com/mikepruett3/youtube-desktop on my machine based on the documentation of the project.

As far as I see, the project itself does not configure anything for electron-forge/maker-deb other than the icon file. Therefore I don!t think it is the project's fault, I assume Ubuntu changed some expectations in dpkg-deb according to the control directory and electron-forge setups the folder incorrectly.

Additional information

No response

[erickzhao]

Does this work for you for the base Forge template (via npx create-electron-app@latest)?

[iDom818]

Running into the same problem here at my company. Using @electron-forge/maker-deb version 7.8.0. Specifically, it is failing in a GitHub CodeSpace based on the mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/python:3.12 image. It is Debian based and required us to install dpkg and fakeroot after that, we were hit with the same error up above. No problems on Ubuntu.

Seems like this is a common issue with certain distros since I saw the same error in a different Electron package as well when looking into the error. https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-installer-debian/pull/347