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Re: package builds crashing under fakeroot



Jakub Wilk, on Tue 04 Oct 2016 10:55:36 +0200, wrote:
> * Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>, 2016-10-04, 08:54:
> >From memory I think this is due to usage of the default rule:
> >%:
> >        dh $@
> >
> >with no override_dh_auto_build and override_dh_auto_test rules. By default
> >the tests are run under fakeroot,
> 
> No, they're not.

Err, I've seen them do. This actually triggered fixing some fakeroot
bugs on hurd-i386 due to various package suddenly failing to build after
some debhelper upgrade (I don't remember which versione exactly), just
because the testsuite was failing to run inside fakeroot.

Samuel


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