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Re: Bug#178251: slang: don't do a dh_testroot in clean



On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 06:55, Josip Rodin wrote:

> Since the binary target is invoked as root (be it fakeroot or su or
> whatever, it doesn't matter), and the clean rule needs to clean out the
> debian/tmp or equivalent directories, it needs root as well.

Not with fakeroot: 

    anthony@whosthere:test_fakeroot$ ls -l
    total 0
    anthony@whosthere:test_fakeroot$ fakeroot mkdir -p a/b/c
    anthony@whosthere:test_fakeroot$ ls -lR  
    .:
    total 4
    drwxr-xr-x    3 anthony  anthony      4096 Mar 17 12:33 a

    ./a:
    total 4
    drwxr-xr-x    3 anthony  anthony      4096 Mar 17 12:33 b

    ./a/b:
    total 4
    drwxr-xr-x    2 anthony  anthony      4096 Mar 17 12:33 c

    ./a/b/c:
    total 0
    anthony@whosthere:test_fakeroot$ rm -Rf a
    anthony@whosthere:test_fakeroot$ ls -lR
    .:
    total 0
    anthony@whosthere:test_fakeroot$ 



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