Re: [PATCH] meta: default "Rules-Requires-Root: no", make it configurable

["'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

Hi Anton,

On 07.09.25 22:42, 'Badrikesh Prusty' via isar-users wrote:
> From: badrikesh prusty <badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com>
> 
> Setting "Rules-Requires-Root: no" in the debian/control file avoids
> unnecessarily calling fakeroot in the build environment. Packages which
> require root can override the new "DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT" variable
> with the desired value.
> 
> Debian recommends not using fakeroot to build a package if it is not
> required i.e., if a package's build doesn't require any privileged
> operations such as changing ownership to root, installing/modifying
> files as root.
> 
> This also fixes hangs observed during fakeroot calls in
> dpkg-buildpackage. References:
> https://github.com/ilbers/isar/issues/113
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1114644
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072521
> 
> Signed-off-by: Badrikesh Prusty <badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com>

I see this patch in your test queue but it's not ready for upstream yet
- just to avoid that it accidentally lands in next.

Jan

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