Phil,

On Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:30:59 PM MST Phil Wyett wrote:
> Lintian, 'd/control', consider adding 'Rules-Requires-Root: no'.
> 
> Ref:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#debian-source-p
> ackage-template-control-files-debian-control

As you know, in the past I have been a strong supporter of packages explicitly 
stating 
Rules-Requires-Root.  However, with recent changes to the tooling, the default 
is now for 
all packages to be processed as 'Rules-Requires-Root: no' if they don’t state 
otherwise.  
Meaning that if this field is left blank and it really needs to be populated, 
then the build 
process should fail and it will be very obvious.  So, I don’t think it is 
really necessary for you 
to mention this lintian tag anymore unless you want to.

Everything changes.  :)

-- 
Soren Stoutner
so...@debian.org

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