From 35873dbf46150051120fa6263f3133422d2e0dcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Allbery
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:02:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Update dpkg-buildpackage documentation to mention
fakeroot
* Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
Morris. (Closes: #658009)
---
debian/changelog | 3 +++
policy.sgml | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3882be4..911986f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ debian-policy (3.9.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
* Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
+ * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
+ reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
+ Morris. (Closes: #658009)
* Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 5a8de36..53b78b0 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -10482,10 +10482,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
the PATH if necessary, and pass its
second and subsequent arguments to the command it
calls. If no root-command is supplied
- then dpkg-buildpackage will take no
- special action to gain root privilege, so that for
- most packages it will have to be invoked as root to
- start with.
+ then dpkg-buildpackage will use
+ the fakeroot command, which is sufficient
+ to build most packages without actually requiring root
+ privileges.
-b, -B
-
--
2.39.2