On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 20:42, Chris Waters wrote: > 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. I fully agree that changing policy wouldn't be warranted at this point. I failed to make that clear in my wording, though. What I was asking for is a consensus on is if clean should require root or not. If the consensus is that having clean not require root (except in those two cases mentioned in policy) is a good thing, then I can begin trying to get dh_testroot removed from packages by getting it removed from the debhelper examples, raising awareness on -devel, etc, and finally (with consensus) filing wishlist or minor bugs on packages. Perhaps -policy is not the correct list for this.
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