please consider "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets" as a Smell
Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:20:10 +0200
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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