please consider "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets" as a Smell

Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:20:10 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
Message-ID <CADsTwj+uF7CmpuZsBjfM6b=EW3fPjU8W1EcVCOTn9-XCDCyU9g@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Lucas,

After fixing many team-maintained packages to build without
"Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets";
I strongly believe that the remaining ~200 packages using this should
be accounted as Smell too.
They most commonly had other problems.

https://trends.debian.net/#rules-requires-root

The worst offenders were the "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets"
that were cargo-culted in just to silence the former Lintian warning
(it even says so in the changelog)

Greetings

Alexandre