Re: Bug#856652: RFS: xpdf/3.0.4.real-4

2017-03-08 Thread Boud Roukema
hi Svante, I could not find the xpdf upstream developer pages. Your message here: On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Svante Signell wrote: And FYI: Quoting from upstream, sent to me yesterday: Regarding security bugs, I try to respond to those as quickly as possible. gives the impression that there is

Re: mpgrafic - mpirun test program as root in automatic build

2017-01-18 Thread Boud Roukema
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Paul Wise wrote: When manually building from source: You always build/test as a normal user. You install as either root or normal user, depending on the install prefix. When doing Debian package builds: You always build/test as a normal user. You always install using

Re: mpgrafic - mpirun test program as root in automatic build

2017-01-17 Thread Boud Roukema
On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Boud Roukema wrote: I've looked a bit at buildd.debian.org, but it's not completely trivial to decide which is correct - do the buildd builds on the debian build machines run dh_auto_tests as (i) root, as (ii

Re: mpgrafic - mpirun test program as root in automatic build

2017-01-17 Thread Boud Roukema
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, James Cowgill wrote: I'm not sure I follow. Debhelper runs the testsuite during the build target so it shouldn't be run as root anyway. I don't think you need any workarounds at all for this. I agree in terms of principles :), but I don't know what actually happens on the

mpgrafic - mpirun test program as root in automatic build

2017-01-16 Thread Boud Roukema
hi Debian-mentors, Is it reasonable to override the mpirun (openmpi_2.0.2~git.20161225-8) default preference of refusing to run as root? I've started packaging mpgrafic for debian - this is my first debianisation, apart from minor private hacks after extracting debian source packages: