Bug#1002626: debian-policy: building packages should not require to be root
Hi Sean,
On 2021-12-25 15:55:32 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Okay, I've attempted to retitle this bug in accordance with your
> suggestion. The relevant change would not be in ch. 4, but under ch. 5.
> What you suggest is to add to the meaning of "Rules-Requires-Root: no"
> that packages which declare this must not fail to build as non-root.
>
> This would be quite a significant change, as currently
> Rules-Requires-Root is pretty much just advisory to dpkg-buildpackage.
I'm wondering what is the point to set "Rules-Requires-Root: no" if
the consequence is that this makes the build fail as a non-root user.
> Do we have a project consensus that it ought to be more than advisory?
> I'm not sure -- the field is fairly new.
If this is new, I would have assumed that when a maintainer adds this
field, he should check that the build really succeeds as non-root.
> In addition to that, we would also need to be confident that making this
> change in Policy would not render more than a few packages buggy.
Couldn't there be a build bot to check that?
FYI, over the past few years, I've built dozens of packages as a
non-root user (I never build packages as root), and with the new
postfix bug (now closed as fixed), this was the first time I saw
a failure for this reason.
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