Bug#658009: debian-policy: dpkg-buildpackage -rroot-command out of date
Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> writes:
> I suggest changing the wording to:
> If no root-command is supplied then dpkg-buildpackage will use
> the fakeroot command, which is sufficient to build most packages
> without actually requiring root privileges.
At some point, we're likely to remove all those appendices and move the
overview information somewhere else (probably in dpkg documentation), but
in the meantime this is a reasonable fix. Applied for the next release.
Thanks!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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