Re: su in debian.rules

[Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>]

Ian Jackson writes:
> 
> If you send me a good patch for a
>   --force-not-root
> flag that (1) disables the check for being root and (2) considers
> files owned by root.root and mode 0644 or 0755 as being owned, in the
> archive, by the user and group running dpkg, I'll consider including
> it.
> 
> I think that's all that's required to get dpkg to install most
> packages without being root.

How about one which considers files owned by the user/group running
dpkg to be owned by root.root when making an archive?

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