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[v2] debianize: set DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT default to "no"

Message ID 20251101200713.140000-1-badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com
State Under Review
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Series [v2] debianize: set DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT default to "no" | expand

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Badrikesh Prusty Nov. 1, 2025, 8:07 p.m. UTC 
From: badrikesh prusty <badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com>

Set DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT to "no" by default to disable the need for
root privileges during package builds on Debian releases before Trixie.

Since dpkg 1.22.13 (Debian Trixie and later), the default value is "no".
In earlier dpkg versions (Debian Bookworm and before), the default was
"binary-targets".

Debian recommends not using root during builds whenever possible. It may
make builds faster by skipping unnecessary root or fakeroot operations.
Recipes that require root privileges can override this by setting
DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT accordingly.

This also fixes hangs observed during fakeroot calls in
dpkg-buildpackage. References:
https://github.com/ilbers/isar/issues/113
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1114644
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072521

Signed-off-by: badrikesh prusty <badrikesh.prusty@siemens.com>
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 meta/classes/debianize.bbclass | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
index 1f54e8f9..ad9e1a0d 100644
--- a/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/debianize.bbclass
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@  DEBIAN_BUILT_USING ??= ""
 DEBIAN_MULTI_ARCH ??= "no"
 DEBIAN_COMPAT ??= "10"
 DEBIAN_CHANGELOG_TIMESTAMP ??= "3600"
-DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT ??= ""
+DEBIAN_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT ??= "no"
 DESCRIPTION ??= "must not be empty"
 MAINTAINER ??= "Unknown maintainer <unknown@example.com>"