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Hello again Santiago,
Some of us here at DebCamp have been reading your message and we're
still not sure of your intention.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 09:41:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Debian Policy 4.9 says:
>
> For some packages, notably ones where the same source tree is compiled
> in different ways to produce two binary packages, the build target
> does not make much sense. For these packages it is good enough to
> provide two (or more) targets (build-a and build-b or whatever) for
> each of the ways of building the package, and a build target that does
> nothing. The binary target will have to build the package in each of
> the possible ways and make the binary package out of each.
>
> Actually, no, I don't think that's "good enough".
>
> We should better avoid building packages as root (including fakeroot).
We already have in policy both:
(i) The build target must not do anything that might require root
privilege.
(iI) The binary targets must be invoked as root [or fakeroot].
However, in the paragraph you quoted, there is a loophole: if the
build-a and build-b targets are not invoked by the build target, instead
directly invoked by the binary target, then (i) does not apply, and
indeed (ii) applies and they will be invoked as root.
Is that why you want to delete that paragraph?
--
Sean Whitton
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