Lintian tag: rules-silently-require-root

Type: information

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

These sources require fakeroot(1) or similar to build the installation
packages, but the field Rules-Requires-Root is empty or missing.

At least the shown path in the indicated installation package is owned by
user (or a group) other than root:root.

Over time, Debian has successively narrowed the steps for which elevated
privileges are required. It speeds up the building of installation
packages in the archive.

Please declare whether the sources require root privileges. Eventually,
Debian will switch the default archive-wide behaviour to expedite the
build process.

You can use the field Rules-Requires-Root in the source stanza of
debian/control to declare the required build privileges.

Please refer to usr/share/doc/dpkg/spec/rootless-builds.txt, debian/rules
and Rules-Requires-Root (Section 4.9.2) in the Debian Policy Manual, and
Rules-Requires-Root (Section 5.6.31) in the Debian Policy Manual for
details.

Visibility: info
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/control/field/rules-requires-root
Renamed from: should-specify-rules-requires-root

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