Lintian tag: silent-on-rules-requiring-root

Type: pedantic

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The field Rules-Requires-Root is missing from the file debian/control.

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. Eventually, Debian will switch the default
archive-wide behaviour to expedite the build process further.

Please declare explicitly that the sources do not require root privileges.
You can use the setting Rules-Requires-Root: no in the source stanza of
debian/control, but please verify with diffoscope(1) that the installation
packages produced are in fact identical.

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: pedantic
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/control/field/rules-requires-root
Renamed from: rules-requires-root-missing

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