[2019-03-20 16:53] Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:02:00AM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > as far as I know, `unshare -r' can provide functionality, equal to
> > fakeroot. Please consider making it one of root-gaining option, and
> > probably downgrade dependency on fakeroot.
>
> I'm assuming you are talking about debuild here.
> As a matter of fact, debuild doesn't do anything anymore with regards of
> the -r option, it just passes it on dpkg-buildpackage.
>
> What actual issue are you facing? You can pass whatever you want to -r,
> as long as the interface provided is the same (which means you may need
> to write a wrapper).
Hard dependency on `fakeroot' is not warranted, at on Linux, I think.
What about
* providing wrapper around `unshare' in bin:devscripts
* documenting that wrapper in debuild(1)
* downgrading fakeroot dependency to recommends
* (optional) make debuild use unshare wrapper if fakeroot is not
installed.
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