Andreas Tille:
Control: tags -1 pending ThanksHi Niels, thanks a lot for splitting up your suggestions for routine-update into easily handleable bug reports. IMHO the most important one is this one and so I tried to tackle it immediately.
You are welcome :)
Am Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:43:27PM +0100 schrieb Niels Thykier:Per lists.debian.org/<[email protected]>, dpkg will now flip the default for Rules-Requires-Root. Therefore, maintainers should no longer need to set `Rules-Requires-Root` any more when omitted. I have filed #1091912 to have lintian stop asking maintainers to set it as well.Hope this will be dealt with soon.
So do I :)
I've pushed a commit which is not adding `Rules-Requires-Root` any more
but rather removes it (why should a package reproduce what is default
anyway). Please review
https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/routine-update/-/commit/f4db74b3f6a1c62cd4a3531643589c5f0901736d
and I will upload immediately.
I would keep existing instances for now. The default is only changed in dpkg/1.22.13, which will likely *never* be backported (dpkg is historically never uploaded to stable-backports). Therefore, the `Rules-Requires-Root: no` will simplify uploads to backports because the backport build identical to the sid/testing build in this regards.
My primary argument for asking tools to stop adding `Rules-Requires-Root` is that it will "soon" be noise for *most* packages. However, packages aiming at oldstable-backports might be happy with that field for another 2+ years, which to me makes it feel premature to automate any removal.
BTW, routine-update is maintained in Debian Science team for historical
reasons. If you consider it better maintained in debian/ team I can
move it there since team uploads by anybody are welcome in any case.
Kind regards
Andreas.
I am not sure I have the bandwidth to help here at any grand scale of things nor do I use routine-update. But I appreciate the offer. Moving to the debian group might still have merit to you if it helps you attract contributors. However, I think you should be the one making the call, not me.
Best regards, Niels
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