On Saturday, December 25, 2021 3:43:24 PM EST Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> Control: tags -1 ftbfs
> Control: retitle -1 postfix: FTBFS Arch-All as rm on a write-protected file
> is interactive
> On 2021-12-23 11:12:40 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > there seems to be 'rm' missing the '-f', which makes the package fail to
> > build from source if the building system has rm aliased to 'rm -i'.
> 
> Even without such an alias:
> 
> vinc17     33260   27638  0 21:34 pts/13   00:00:00 rm
> debian/postfix-doc/usr/share/doc/postfix/html/Makefile.in
> 
> This is the default behavior of rm on a write-protected file, such as
> 
> -r--r--r-- 1 vinc17 vinc17 12526 2021-12-25 21:34:15
> debian/postfix-doc/usr/share/doc/postfix/html/Makefile.in
> 
> So the -f option is needed *everywhere*.

Certainly not a serious bug.  I don't think building the package after write 
protecting the contents is a particularly supported configuration.

Scott K

P.S.  Don't upgrade the severity again.  If you think this is such a big deal, 
go get something in Debian policy.

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