Bug#1107992: drop Rules-Requires-Root

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
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Fabian Grünbichler, le mer. 18 juin 2025 18:05:29 +0200, a ecrit:
> while looking through the archive for unrelated reasons, I noticed src:hurd is
> the only package using Rules-Requires-Root: debhelper/upstream-make-install

Actually it's probably because it's the only package which bothered to
try to be more precise than just Rules-Requires-Root: yes/no

> this has the advantage that new root-requiring steps in `make install` added
> in future versions are not silently ignored (which would be the case currently),
> but should actually fail the build.

Indeed!

> On June 18, 2025 5:28:25 PM GMT+02:00, Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Fabian Grünbichler, le mer. 18 juin 2025 17:01:55 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> full debdiff dropping R³ attachted as well.
> >> 
> >[...]
> >> only set it in debian/rules via chown u+s
> >
> >This part seems missing in the patches? Perhaps debian has a better way
> >to set u+s than an explicit chmod?
> 
> No, that part already is there in the package right now :)

Ah, right :)

Applied, thanks!
Samuel
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