Re: Question to dh_installdocs

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:41:54AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> OK, now I am confused, because if I use
> 
>     dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k0xC492F812
> 
> it does not work, but
> 
>     fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -k0xC492F812
Is dh_installdocs being called by the "binary" rule?

Rereading your original message, it is not clear if that particular
invocation of debian/rules is with fake root privlidges.  Empirically,
"binary" and "clean" have fakeroot, and "build" does not.

Justin

References

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/03/msg00015.html