Control: tags -1 wontfix
Santiago Vila:
Package: debhelper
Version: 13.11.4
Hello Niels et al.
Now that most packages allow building without fakeroot, I would
expect this to work:
(Using indent as an example because it has Rules-Requires-Root: no
and a very low build time)
$ apt-get source indent
$ cd indent-2.2.13
$ debian/rules build
[...]
$ debian/rules binary
dh binary
dh_testroot
dh_testroot: error: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot).
make: *** [debian/rules:3: binary] Error 255
If I replace dh_testroot by a symlink to true, then it fails
because dh_installdocs tries to use chown.
This is strange because I don't need fakeroot at all inside
the chroot when I build the package using dpkg-buildpackage.
Not sure if my expectancy is realistic or not, maybe I'm
missing something.
Thanks.
Hi,
That is correct behavior for debhelper according to the rootless spec
and the necessary support for packages that do require (fake)root, where
the builder exposes DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT to announce whether it is a
rootless builds. You (as a package builder) need to use
`dpkg-buildpackage` to invoke `debian/rules` for rootless builds.
If you (as a maintainer) for some reason need to debug some very
specific issue (etc.) where bypassing `dpkg-buildpackage` is imperative,
you can use `DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT=<value> debian/rules binary`.
Best regards,
Niels
