Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.1.0 Severity: normal After a discussion in #-devel today I reviewed packages using other choices of "Rules-Requires-Root" than "no" and "binary-targets". The query [1] found two uses:
- wfrench 1.2.6-1. This could just use "no"; a bug was filed[2]. - libcap2 1:2.44-1. Uses it for running tests as root, but doesn't support fakeroot anyway. Rules-Requires-Root can't however communicate this so additional knowledge is needed. The complexity to support arbitrary additional keywords as choices of R³ seems overkill given there is just one real user (libcap2) and the current R³ specification doesn't handle that usecase fully either. Therefore I suggest to deprecate using R³ values other than "no" and "binary-targets" within Debian. (Unrelated: R³: no should probably be recommended.) Ansgar [1]: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Rules-Requires-Root%3A+%5B%5Ebn%5D+path%3Adebian%2Fcontrol%24&literal=0 [2]: https://bugs.debian.org/975635
