Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Boud Roukema wrote: > >> I guess by "both of these" you mean "most of the build steps (apart from >> the 'debian/rules install' step)"? > > What I wrote wasn't clear and wasn't strictly true, sorry! > > When manually building from source: > > You always build/test as a normal user. > You install as either root or normal user, depending on the install > prefix. > > When doing Debian package builds: > > You always build/test as a normal user. > You always install using fakeroot.
Also when using cowbuilder? At least I see the whole build done by root when running in my cowbuilder chroot. That was the point that lead to the trouble here... Best Ole
