On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:49:59PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 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. > > What about 'Rules-Requires-Root: yes' ? What about it? The current policy doesn't support this value.
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