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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and fakeroot



>         Do you know why it does that? I'm curious about exactly what
>  fails.  mailagent, for example, has checks to see if some files are
>  (correctly) unreadable, which would fail if the check was run as
>  root. I actually check to see if the check is being run as root, and,
>  if so, su to nobody to run the test suite.

I think just to prevent the user from harming himself.

Ondrej



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