On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 12:37:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Leandro Cunha wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > -- > > > WBR, wRAR > > > >From what I understand, Rules-Requires-Root: no (default) would no > > longer be necessary. I asked this question because it's a question I > had, as it's listed as a default. It might lead anyone reading the > policy to believe this would still be necessary (or not, if she/he > sees this email). There is some further information in the Lintian bug report that got rid of the warning that you should declare "Rules-Requires-Root: No”. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1091912 https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/556/diffs -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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