On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:14:13AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > By the same measure, the dh_testroot in the binary rule would serve no > purpose either, you'd find out it went wrong soon enough.
Indeed, and that's what I think. However, some people like to put dh_testroot there, and it does no harm because the binary target _will_ need root at some point. (Also, the binary target is usualy not incremental, so restarting it takes longer than restarting a clean.) Richard Braakman