On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:43:04AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Then I ran 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -j4' as root' [...] Note: Debian packages do not require to be built by root, so it's better that you don't. Using fakeroot is the default. Just install it and it will be used automatically by dpkg-buildpackage.