Christian Hudon wrote: > Actually, now that fakeroot has been well tested, shouldn't it become the > default? Pretty much nobody builds packages without it nowadays.
I maintain and have run up against a fair number of packages that fail in various nasty ways when built with fakeroot. At this point, if a package builds with something I didn't expect in it, especially WRT permissions, I automatically rebuild it with sudo and watch the problem go away. Heck, debhelper has special case code in it to detect some of the more common problems and issue a warning. Fakeroot is *not* stable. -- see shy jo
