[maemo-developers] Error building maemopad package

[From: Mike Cowlishaw]

Hi, I am working my way through the Maemo 3.0 tutorial, and everything was 
working as expected until I got to step 4 of the maemopad example.  This 
'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b' appears to go well, but ends with:

  dh_link
  ln: creating symbolic link 
  `debian/tmp/etc/others-menu/extra_applications/0112_maemopad.desktop'
  to `/usr/share/applications/hildon/maemopad.desktop': Operation not 
  permitted

  dh_link: command returned error code 256
  make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1

... which is a bit of a show-stopper.  Any ideas as to what might cause 
this?

Mike Cowlishaw
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