Re: The saga of: Rules-Requires-Root: no

[Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 03:51:33PM -0300, Leandro Cunha wrote:
> > Until recently most packages required 'Rules-Requires-Root: no' be added to the
> > 'debian/control' file of a package. This is no longer the case, with this now
> > being default behaviour. You do not need to add it new packages and those
> > maintaining packages can remove it.
> > From what I saw here, policy 4.1.5 in 5.6.31 defined this and wouldn't
> there need to be an update to the policy about this?
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-rules-requires-root

Is there something at this link that makes you think that some update is 
needed or contradicts what Phil wrote?

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