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# `rules-require-root-explicitly`

The sources require `fakeroot(1)` or similar to build the installation packages and also explicitly declare that need via the field `Rules-Requires-Root` in the source stanza of the file `debian/control`.

Severity: | `classification`
Experimental: | `false`
Renamed from: | `rules-requires-root-explicitly`

## See also

- usr/share/doc/dpkg/spec/rootless-builds.txt

- debian/rules and Rules-Requires-Root (Section 4.9.2) in the Debian Policy Manual

- Rules-Requires-Root (Section 5.6.31) in the Debian Policy Manual

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag