Status: `Rules-Requires-Root: no` being the new default

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Hi,

This is an update on the MBF for `Rules-Requires-Root: no` as the new 
default.


# Qualitative updates:

 * The bugs have all been filed. Most where filed on Dec 7, but I had
   to file 15 special cases manually, which happened Dec 14.

 * A number of permission denied issues have been identified. Usually
   around `dh_strip`. Three common solutions have been:

    a) Calling `dh_fixperms` before `dh_strip`. That is what `dh` does
       in compat 13. Note this changes in compat 14, but compat 14
       will introduce a change to `dh_auto_install` to counter this
       problem.

    b) Calling `chmod -R u+rwX debian/tmp` (etc.) right after doing the
       upstream install. This is what `dh_auto_install` will do in
       compat 14+.

    c) Migrating from `cdbs` to `dh`. This is basically a variant of a)
       because `cdbs` and `dh` had different command orders, which the
       Perl team has favored.

 * I have scheduled a 15-delayed NMU for libjama, which is the only
   confirmed case of misbuilding, meaning the fix should be in unstable
   before the end of the year.

   The "possible misbuild" cases are still unknown. These were filed on
   Dec 14, so the maintainers may not have had time to look at them
   yet.

 * I had a minor mistake in the number of bugs in my original, which was
   largely offset by the fixes done by people before I filed the bugs.
   Nevertheless, if you were wondering about the numbers being off, then
   that is why.


# How you can help with progress


 * You can tag the bug with `help` if you get stuck trying to get a
   better solution. There are several people working on this who are
   very happy to do patches and the upload, if you are out of Debian
   time, capacity, or just want to focus on something else in Debian.

 * Remember that `Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets` is a perfectly
   serviceable solution if you do not have time to look into a full
   fix. Slab that line in, upload, and your package is off the TODO
   list.

 * reviewable-patch.{list,dd-list}: Bugs that have a patch or a MR,
   for the maintainer to review.

   Note: A lot of the patches are from the last 48 hours, so there
   is no expectation from me that the maintainer had time to review
   them.

 * pending-upload.{list,dd-list}: Bugs where the maintainer either
   committed a patch to the repo or acknowledged the patch in the BTS.

   Please consider uploading soon. :)


Note: The list have been manually curated and are therefore **not** 1:1 
with the BTS tags above. I am not sure I can commit to manually curating 
with every update.


# Quantitative updates:
In total, 221 bugs where filed under the usertag:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=rrr-no-as-default-issue;users=niels@thykier.net

Numbers as of this email:
 * 52 are resolved (24%).
 * 8 are tagged pending (3.5%)
 * 13 are tagged patch excluding pending (6%)

If all patches were applied and uploaded in this instant, we would have 
been 34% done with the bugs. I think there are also some pending RMs, 
but I have not included them (I am trying to keep the manual crossing 
checking to a minimum).

# Thanks

Thanks to all the people who have fixed their packages so far, provided 
patches or done NMUs! We would not have been this far without you.

Best regards,
Niels

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
   modsecurity-apache
   tripwire

Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@debian.org>
   most

Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
   schroot

Davide G. M. Salvetti <salve@debian.org>
   witalian

Debian HA Maintainers <debian-ha-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   heartbeat

Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
   xorg

Ervin Hegedus <airween@gmail.com>
   modsecurity-apache (U)

Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
   sauce

Jakob Haufe <sur5r@debian.org>
   schroot (U)

Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>
   libspf2

Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
   argus

Santiago García Mantiñán <manty@debian.org>
   bridge-utils

Valentin Vidic <vvidic@debian.org>
   heartbeat (U)

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
   extrepo

Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>
   mgetty

Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
   libjama

David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
   nullmailer

Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
   debian-policy

Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuig@debian.org>
   hylafax

Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>
   ftpwatch

Joachim Wiedorn <joodebian@joonet.de>
   hylafax (U)

Mark Hindley <leepen@debian.org>
   ucf

Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
   xplot

Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>
   dict-gcide

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
   debian-policy (U)

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
   debian-policy (U)

argus
bridge-utils
extrepo
heartbeat
libspf2
modsecurity-apache
most
tripwire
witalian
xorg
sauce
schroot

ucf
hylafax
dict-gcide
ftpwatch
mgetty
nullmailer
xplot
libjama
debian-policy

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