On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 09:18:26 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > It uses dh_testroot, so it probably can't have Rules-Requires-Root: no, > and needs to be built as (fake)root indefinitely - even though a package > this simple can almost certainly be built correctly without fakeroot.
You've mention this twice in the thread, and this is incorrect. Actually, removing dh_testroot would be just harmful. Whether a package is to be built with R³ or not depends in most part on the builder environment, not the packaging. If you use a new enough dpkg-buildpackage, then it will enable it if the packaging allows it, otherwise it should require (fake)root; or if calling debian/rules by hand, even when the packaging has specified it can be built with no R³. (See dpkg itself for an example of this.) Thanks, Guillem
