Re: Bug#178251: slang: don't do a dh_testroot in clean
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:53:00PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> My personal opinion (subject to change with good arguments against it,
> of course) is that clean must not require root unless another target has
> been invoked as root.
The argument against this is that the majority of package currently
DO require root (or fakeroot, dh_testroot can't tell the difference).
Nor does policy *FORBID* this -- it may not MANDATE it, but it doesn't
forbid it, and we don't change policy to make a majority (or even a
large number) of packages magically become buggy.
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