Hello, On Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 01:22am +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Starting with dpkg 1.22.0, it implements a dpkg-build-api mechanism > similar in concept to the debhelper-compat levels. > > You can check its documentation in the dpkg-build-api(7) and > dpkg-buildapi(1) manual pages. > > I think at least the part that involves the Rules-Requires-Root field > which in level 1 defaults to value «no» instead of «binary-targets» > should be documented in the Debian policy. Agreed. Thanks for the report. > I'm ambivalent on whether documenting the general mechanism in Debian > policy makes sense though. When many/most Debian package maintainers need to know about this, as they do debhelper compat, then we should add it, but until then, perhaps not. -- Sean Whitton
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