On 13/05/12 23:37, Hendrik Tews wrote:
... the incorrect root test comes from file m4/base_checks.m4 deleting the line 'RUNNING_USER="$USER"' there and running ./bootstrap then yields checking that calling user is not root... ok and the package builds fine (done with autoconf 2.69; maybe its better to downgrade to 2.68 to keep the patch small).
Thanks for the investigation! Could you prepare patches for the affected packages so that we fix them in Unstable? (You can set "Team upload" in the debian/changelog). Cheers, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/