Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 23:04 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>  $ debian/rules clean
>>  test -x debian/rules
>>  dh_testroot
>>  dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot).
>>  make: *** [testroot] Error 255
>> 
>> This test seems a little over-strict: the worst thing that could
>> happen from a 'clean' as non-root would be a different error causing
>> it not to finish the job, and if lucky (e.g. if the user was using
>> fakeroot or had not run any targets as root yet), the 'clean' will
>> just work.
>> 
>> What do you think?  If you think this is a good idea, please reassign
>> the bug to the relevant package.  I’m pretty sure it is not shogun but
>> my cdbs-fu is not strong enough to pinpoint the problem.
>
> it is cdbs that is requiring this... why don't you use
> fakeroot ./debian/rules clean?

I do, but I shouldn’t need to. :)

Thanks,
Jonathan



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