Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Bug#1092193: option (or env) to request <=bookworm
r-r-r behaviour"):
> 2/ I consider --rules-requires-root to be a sufficient work-around
> _provided_ it is clearly documented
I agree that it should be documented.
I don't agree that it is a completely sufficient workaround. It can
be used in the case of a single package. But a downstream might have
have multiple packges. Perhaps very many packages.
If some of those packages are from Debian bookwork or earlier, then
indeed some of them will not build unless --rules-requires-root is
passed. But, always passing --rules-requires-root will probably break
*other* packages that were adapted to rootless builds a long time ago.
I haven't done any kind of survey of the prevalence of this problem.
I don't think that'd be proportionate. An option that precixely
changes *just the default* would suffice.
Ian.
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