dpkg-buildpackage fails on ubuntu build of pulseaudio 0.9.7

[Soren Hansen]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:06:20PM -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> >  debian/rules clean
> > test -x debian/rules
> > test "`id -u`" = 0
> > make: *** [testroot] Error 1
> > --------------------------------------
> > 
> > Why are we in the twenty-first century and the package requires me to be 
> > *root* in order to build?  I pass.

Because - just like in all the previous centuries where this sort of
thing was relevant - being root (or pretending to be root by using
fakeroot) makes it roughly 27.3 times easier to create tarballs with
files in it that does not look to be owned by the user who built it. :)

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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