Bug#1089336: genders: Supporting rootless builds by default

[Niels Thykier]

Control: tags -1 patch

On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 20:15:36 +0100 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:

Source: genders
Version: 1.27-3-3
Severity: important
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS
X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.net
User: ni...@thykier.net
Usertags: rrr-no-as-default-issue

Dear maintainer,

During a test rebuild for building packages with
`Rules-Requires-Root: no` as the default in `dpkg`,
genders failed to rebuild.

Log Summary:
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Hi

Please see attached as a patch.



Best regards,
Niels


diff -Nru genders-1.27-3/debian/changelog genders-1.27-3/debian/changelog
--- genders-1.27-3/debian/changelog     2024-10-17 04:24:45.000000000 +0200
+++ genders-1.27-3/debian/changelog     2024-12-31 12:51:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+genders (1.27-3-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Remove need for root when building the package.
+    (Closes: #1089336)
+
+ -- Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net>  Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:51:46 +0000
+
 genders (1.27-3-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Update Homepage (closes: #1085174)
diff -Nru genders-1.27-3/debian/control genders-1.27-3/debian/control
--- genders-1.27-3/debian/control       2024-10-17 04:24:45.000000000 +0200
+++ genders-1.27-3/debian/control       2024-12-31 12:51:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Brian Pellin <bpel...@debian.org>
 Uploaders: tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 10), perl, autotools-dev, chrpath, flex, 
bison, dh-autoreconf
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Standards-Version: 4.7.0
 VCS-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/bpellin/genders
 
diff -Nru genders-1.27-3/debian/rules genders-1.27-3/debian/rules
--- genders-1.27-3/debian/rules 2024-07-27 04:42:18.000000000 +0200
+++ genders-1.27-3/debian/rules 2024-12-31 12:51:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@
 clean:
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot
-       
+
        # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
        dh_auto_clean
 
        rm -f *-stamp
 
        rm -f config/config.sub config/config.guess
-       
+
        dh_autoreconf_clean
        dh_clean 
 
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
        # Add here commands to install the arch part of the package into 
        # debian/tmp.
        dh_auto_install
+       chmod -R u+rwX $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
 
 
 binary-common:

I intend to NMU to make progress on the MBF if I do not hear from you on this. It would help me if you either uploaded this soon or approved the NMU (enabling me to skip the delay). Thanks in advance.

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