Bug#37615: marked as done (source command should try to become root)
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:38:27 -0400
From: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>
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Subject: source command should try to become root
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Severity: Wishlist
In order to build Debian packages you have to be root or running under a
fakeroot-style environment. It would be helpful if apt-get could automatically
attempt to run dpkg-buildpackage through (for example) fakeroot. Not that it's
too much trouble to prefix apt-get source with fakeroot, but this would make
building packages as a non-root user even easier than it already is..
Daniel
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