The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6b0af3e6fa73e9e30f67dc885164244e13ec5d6c
Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Jul 14 12:35:51 2009 +0200

    Add fakeroot to dpkg-dev Recommends
    
    Since version 1.14.7, dpkg-buildpackage uses fakeroot by default to
    obtain (emulated) root privileges.
    
    Reported-by: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>
    Closes: #536821

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index be1d363..1f09b1c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ dpkg (1.15.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Remove trailing ‘/’ and ‘/.’ from the directory name to be used as the
     package name on “dpkg-deb -b”. Closes: #218018, #373602
   * Remove obsolete ‘hold’ and ‘hold-reinstreq’ internal status flags.
+  * Add fakeroot to dpkg-dev Recommends. Closes: #536821
 
   [ Raphael Hertzog ]
   * Replace install-info by a wrapper around GNU's install-info. The wrapper
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e638dcc..855b700 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Architecture: all
 Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.6), perl5, perl-modules, bzip2, lzma,
  patch (>= 2.2-1), make, binutils, libtimedate-perl
-Recommends: gcc | c-compiler, build-essential, gnupg, gpgv
+Recommends: gcc | c-compiler, build-essential, fakeroot, gnupg, gpgv
 Suggests: debian-keyring, debian-maintainers
 Conflicts: dpkg-cross (<< 2.0.0), devscripts (<< 2.10.26)
 Replaces: manpages-pl (<= 20051117-1)

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