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Re: [MBF]: Proposing `Rules-Requires-Root: no` being the new default

From Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.maint.dpkg
Subject Re: [MBF]: Proposing `Rules-Requires-Root: no` being the new default
Date 2024-11-29 17:50 +0100
Message-ID <JOclP-cwIv-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 2024-11-29 11:08 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:

Lots of good stuff...

My minor contribution is to note a typo/grammaro in the default bug text/template:

>    The primary reason why this was such a small issue where:

Should be:

The primary reasons why this was such a small issue were:

(or maybe
The primary reason why this was such a small issue was:
?, but there are two reasons given so this seems unlikely to be what was meant
)

Context:

>      1) Wide-spread use of `Rules-Requires-Root: no` to limit which
>         packages could be affected (about 50% of the archive had
>         migrated away from `fakeroot`).
> 
>      2) A quick fix to `debhelper` to remove the reliance on
>         `fakeroot` when assembling `-dbgsym` packages.

A detail, I know, but we take detail-correction seriously round here. :-)

Wookey
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