I just noticed the debian/rules file for mirrormagic which I inherited from Joey Hess uses dh_testroot to check that the build is run as root (or fakeroot).
I'm wondering what the justification for doing this is. It prevents, for instance, a home user compiling his own deb before installing unless he specifically compiles it under root or fakeroot. I'm fairly certain this is a Stupid Question, but one way of learning is to ask the stupid questions... ;) Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
