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required to be root? (Was: Debian development using ...)



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You write:
> I have a question related to this.  It does seem that to
> build a package one needs to be root.  A consequence of this
> it that when I run dpkg-buildpackage, it tries to sign the
> resulting package with the root pgp key.  This doesn't seem
> correct to me.
> 
> What do folks do to get around this problem?
 
I use shadow's su, which doesn't touch $HOME and $USER (a feature IMO)

David
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