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, 9:51 am

Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> wrote:

> Daniel Schepler wrote:
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> Well, some people think that writing outside the build-dir is a FTBFS
> bug as well[1].
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> 1. http://bugs.debian.org/336014

Well, yes, but I think things are different here. I think nobody would
object if a package writes into /var/ or /tmp, and ours is just another
case of /var usage.

Regards, Frank
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