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Re: Debian development using the master account?



Guy Maor:
> More importantly, you have to be root to build packages.

This is true right now, but not technically necessary.  A tar archive
is a regular file, and the ownership of files inside can be changed
by modifying the tar headers (instead of using chown in debian/tmp -
it's the only thing that requires root privileges).

Marek


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