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Bug#835451: debian-policy: Building as root should be discouraged



On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 03:43:56PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> I am not saying that the build target must not be empty. I can be empty but
> the build-a ... build-n dependecies have to be moved away from the binary
> target and have to be made dependencies of the build target (which can only
> have deps but no own instructions).
> 
> And if that makes packages buggy, then they are actually quite buggy,
> because the build-a ... build-n get executed in a fakeroot concept by design
> of dpkg-buildpackage. And IMHO this should definitely be avoided.

Just to be clear, I do agree with you that this situation where they are
deps of the binary target is bad.

Interested to hear what Santiago thinks.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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