On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 13:10 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > 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
Evening Soren, Thanks for the information, I will let this one go in the future. Indeed... Everything changes. The fast moving target that is Debian always has something new for us. :-) Regards Phil -- Donations... Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg -- "I play the game for the game’s own sake" Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans -- Internet Relay Chat (IRC): kathenas Website: https://kathenas.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/kathenasorg Threads: https://www.threads.net/@kathenasorg --
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