rules-silently-require-root

These sources require fakeroot(1) or similar to build the installation packages, but the field Rules-Requires-Root is empty or missing.

At least the shown path in the indicated installation package is owned by user (or a group) other than root:root.

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.

Please declare whether the sources require root privileges. Eventually, Debian will switch the default archive-wide behaviour to expedite the build process.

You can use the field Rules-Requires-Root in the source stanza of debian/control to declare the required build privileges.

Severity: info
Experimental: false
Renamed from: should-specify-rules-requires-root

See also