Bug#793404: massive waste of CPU time in debian/rules by inline commands

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Hideki Yamane:
> Hi Niels,
> 
>  Thanks for your explanation :)
> 
> On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 09:52:00 +0000
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
>> We are very far from being able to flip the default.  There are some
>> 800+ packages that need to be updated to follow latest policy
>> requirements plus explicitly declare their need for (fake)root.
> 
>  Okay, maybe we can achieve it as compat level 13, 14 or 15...
>  but loooog way to go, I agree with it.
> 
> 

Sorry, but this cannot be done via a compat level.  If it could have, I
would have done it in compat 12 and moved on.

Please see #884999 for the reasons why debhelper cannot change this
default for us.

Thanks,
~Niels