Niels Thykier writes ("Bug#1089303: chiark-utils: Supporting rootless builds by
default"):
> I think the attached patch should solve it. Though, please review it
> carefully, since I am seeing some surprising delta. Such as
> git-branchmove.1 being added to the diff, which I think is a bug in the
> original packaging. Additionally 'debian/chiark-backup/conffiles' is
> removed, which I do not understand and it looks kind of bad. I have
> filtered out both of these in the attached debdiff.
Thanks for the patch. (I haven't looked at it yet.)
> Like with authbind, this might be overdue for a packaging rewrite. Let
> me know if you are interested in that.
You are very probably right about it needing a packaging rewrite. It
really ought to be using dh, although I'm not sure how well that will
fit given how anomalous the upstream parts are.
Ian.
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