Hideki Yamane:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2019 10:47:22 -0700
> Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
>> (surely we are a very long way from r-r-r: no for every package?)
>
> I don't think so since lintian info about
> "should-specify-rules-requires-root"
> containts only 98 packages.
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/should-specify-rules-requires-root.html
>
> mandatory "r-r-r: no" in dpkg-dev and full rebuild shows exact numbers
> to be dealt with, IMO.
>
>
The use of "r-r-r: no" will also disable dpkg-buildpackage detection of
missing build-{arch,indep} targets. IOW, you need to add
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-missing-recommended-target.html
To your list of packages needing a fix before "r-r-r: no" can be the
default.
Additionally, lintian cannot/does not detect cases where a package use
(fake)root during the install step (e.g. upstream) but then later
"undoes" the ownership to root:root (e.g. dh_fixperms). Just as an FYI,
so you know the lintian check is incomplete (I have no idea how many
instances we have of that - so it might be a non-issue).
Thanks,
~Niels
