On Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:58:03 +0100, intrigeri wrote: > gregor herrmann (2020-02-04): > >> On 30/01/20 8:48 pm, gregor herrmann wrote: > >> > In practice it seems that some people have started to add > >> > "Rules-Requires-Root: no" to some packages. And lintian > >> > mentions it. > The way I see it, before we make something the default, it's good to > start experimenting with it in a narrower scope, in order to identify > issues and build confidence that it could be a sane default. > That's why I've started setting "R³: no" almost every time I touch > a package some time ago, hence introducing some — hopefully > temporary — inconsistency. Agreed, thanks to you and others for experimenting with it. > As far as Debian packaging is concerned, I do like consistency too, > so thank you for restarting this conversation :) :) > > Besides the question of a potential mass change in git: Are there > > opinions for or against R³:no as a default policy, as a default in > > dh-make-perl (somewhere else?)? > So far, in my limited experience, I've not noticed any breakage caused > by "R³: no" in any package I've touched. This makes me feel confident > we can now enable it by default in dh-make-perl (including "refresh"). Ok, I guess I can try to look into that if noone beats me to it. > I would not dare advocating for a mass commit right now, because most > likely I won't help much dealing with its fallout. Perhaps the mass > commit could be another step, to deal with the (probably huge) long > tail of packages that haven't "R³: no" yet, a few months after we > started systematically enabling it while updating+uploading packages, > and built more confidence into it and into our ability to identify > problematic cases? Sounds reasonable, and timeframe-wise this might be something to look at during DebCamp/DebConf in August. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Joan Baez: Love is just a four letter word
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