From 35873dbf46150051120fa6263f3133422d2e0dcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:02:00 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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