> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.6
> Severity: Wishlist
[Heh, please restict your line length to 70-72 chars!!]
> In order to build Debian packages you have to be root or running under a
> fakeroot-style environment. It would be helpful if apt-get could
> automatically
> attempt to run dpkg-buildpackage through (for example) fakeroot.
> Not that it's
> too much trouble to prefix apt-get source with fakeroot, but this would make
> building packages as a non-root user even easier than it already is..
Have you looked at the debuild program in devscripts? Already does
this. I agree that it would be nice if dpkg-buildpackage could have a
config file which could specify a default gain-root-commond. (Already
a wishlist bug for devscripts ;)
Julian
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