control: retitle -1 When Rules-Require-Root: no, packages should not fail to build as non-root Hello Vincent, On Sat 25 Dec 2021 at 11:37PM +01, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When a package is built as a normal user, Rules-Requires-Root assumes > that using fakeroot would be fine. > > Here, the build via "debuild" is failing even when fakeroot is > available (installed on the machine). Note that Rules-Requires-Root > has been set to "no". IMHO, the policy should say that when > Rules-Requires-Root is set to "no", being root or using fakeroot > should not be required. Okay, I've attempted to retitle this bug in accordance with your suggestion. The relevant change would not be in ch. 4, but under ch. 5. What you suggest is to add to the meaning of "Rules-Requires-Root: no" that packages which declare this must not fail to build as non-root. This would be quite a significant change, as currently Rules-Requires-Root is pretty much just advisory to dpkg-buildpackage. Do we have a project consensus that it ought to be more than advisory? I'm not sure -- the field is fairly new. In addition to that, we would also need to be confident that making this change in Policy would not render more than a few packages buggy. -- Sean Whitton
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