Hi, Quoting Santiago Vila (2025-03-16 22:20:37) > Regarding fakeroot, I was really thinking about packages that might rely on > fakeroot being present, but in a way not related with dpkg or > rules-requires-root, i.e. imagine a package doing this in the build target, > either directly or indirectly: > > fakeroot tar czvf some-artifact.tar.gz sometree > > My concern here is that by dropping fakeroot from > the chroot, we may uncover some missing build-depends, > similar to what it happened with tzdata some time ago. > > I guess the only way to see if there are any packages doing that > is by actually trying to build them without fakeroot, so that's what I will > probably do and will let you know how it goes...
yes, I expect there to be quite a number of packages that need fakeroot during the build but forgot to declare an explicit Build-Depends on it because it used to be always installed until recently. I'm looking forward to your findings! Lets hope it's not too many packages. Thanks! cheers, josch
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