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Re: Debian Policy 4.1.5



Le samedi 07 juillet 2018 à 17:54 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> A new version of the the Debian Policy has been released.  According to 
> the upgrading checklist [*], these are the two changes from 4.1.4 that 
> could affect the DOG packages :
> 
> 9.1.1 – Update Debian's version of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard from 
> 2.3 to 3.0, and update the list of exceptions.  Only a tiny minority of 
> packages, if any, should be made buggy by this change.
> 
> 9.3.2 & 10.4 – Update version of POSIX standard for shell scripts from 
> SUSv3 to POSIX.1-2017 (also known as SUSv4 in some contexts).
> 
> My guess is that none of them are relevant for the DOG packages. If there 
> are no objections, I will mass-upgrade the Standards-Version of the 
> packages.
> 
The new Rules-Requires-Root is relevant though. I would suggest adding
"Rules-Requires-Root: no" to all our packages (since I think none of
them requires root during building, since we don’t change ownerships of
files).

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