On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:50:43PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Gerrit Pape wrote: >> I personally don't think running the selftests as non-root is a >> workaround, but strongly recommended. For every software project, >> 'make' should run with as less permissions as possible (ideally in a >> sandbox ;), and root permissions should only be used where really >> required (usually 'make install'). My suggestion would be to make this >> report wishlist, wontfix. > > I think Debian packages are supposed to build using > > debuild binary
I don't know debuild, but if it runs the build targets with fakeroot by default, I'd say that is a bug in debuild. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
