On 2021-12-25 14:48:33 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@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?
According to Sean, this is just advisory (and Scott Kitterman seemed to assume that a build failure as non-root[*] was not a RC bug). [*] here, just because of "Rules-Requires-Root: no". -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
