Jelmer Vernooij:
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:51:05PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:Package: lintian-brush Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: ni...@thykier.netPer lists.debian.org/<821041fd-b980-4506-a35a-b9826fe04...@thykier.net>, dpkg will now flip the default for Rules-Requires-Root. Therefore, maintainers should no longer be prodded to set `Rules-Requires-Root` any more when omitted. I have filed #1091912 for the lintian side of things.Does that mean lintian/lintian-brush should potentially delete explicit declaration of Rules-Requires-Root (depending on Standards-Version?) ? Jelmer
I would say "not yet".The default is decided by `dpkg` and that default differs depending on the Debian release with Trixie + newer on one side and older on the other side. For a package that aiming at supporting (old)stable-backports, it is perfectly valid to have `Rules-Requires-Root: no` to ensure that the -backports use rootless builds to match the current sid/testing. If lintian-brush removes that field too soon, then (old)stable-backports is built using different rules than sid+testing which is unnecessary debugging for the maintainers.
Some years down the line though, `Rules-Requires-Root: no` would become truly redundant and something that `lintian-brush` should just remove like other fields where specifying the default is redundant.
Best regards, Niels
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