> Anyway, I don't see how having a dh_testroot should be policy > *violation*. From my reading, clean *may* get invoked as root, but from > that it does not follow that it *must not* be invoked as root if > unnecessary.
I parse "The clean target may need to be invoked as root if binary has
been invoked..." as:
IF (binary invoked) or (build as root) THEN
MAY require root to clean
ELSE
MAY NOT require root to clean
=>
MUST NOT require root
UNLESS (binary invoked) or (build as root)
The only other way that I see to read that section of policy is to read
it as a simple reminder to people building packages, in which case it
should be either removed or changed to a footnote.
I've cc'd debian-policy, maybe they'll have some comments on how to read
that section of policy.
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