Debian Developers - Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

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Re: May a package assume that builds are performed with root-like rights?

Frank Küster

2006-02-26, 9:50 am

Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Frank K=FCster wrote:
>
>
> Absolutely not.=20

....because?

Because:=20

,---- Policy 4.8
| The build target must not do anything that might require root privilege.
`----

Regards, Frank

--=20
Frank K=FCster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z=
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Debian Developer (teTeX)