Bug#1002626: debian-policy: building packages should not require to be root
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:
> 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.
It does already.
no: Declares that neither root nor fakeroot is required. Package
builders (e.g. dpkg-buildpackage) may choose to invoke any target in
debian/rules with an unprivileged user.
Am I missing something?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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