Bug#212183: apt: FTBFS when gain-root command gains real root

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

tags 212183 pending
thanks

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:22:28PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:

> I get FTBFS when gain-root command passed as "-r" to dpkg-buildpackage does
> gain real root, such as sudo:
> 
> rmh@aragorn:/tmp/apt-0.5.12$ dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo -B
> [...]
> cp -a /usr/share/misc/config.sub buildlib/config.sub
> cp: cannot create regular file `buildlib/config.sub': Permission denied
> make: *** [build/configure-stamp] Error 1

I've never been a fan of automagically copying in those files anyway, so I'm
just going to remove that bit.  This will be fixed shortly.

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 - mdz