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# `rules-silently-require-root`

These sources require `fakeroot(1)` or similar to build the installation packages, but the field `Rules-Requires-Root` is empty or missing.

At least the shown path in the indicated installation package is owned by user (or a group) other than `root:root`.

Over time, Debian has successively narrowed the steps for which elevated privileges are required. It speeds up the building of installation packages in the archive.

Please declare whether the sources require root privileges. Eventually, Debian will switch the default archive-wide behaviour to expedite the build process.

You can use the field `Rules-Requires-Root` in the source stanza of `debian/control` to declare the required build privileges.

Severity: | `info`
Experimental: | `false`
Renamed from: | `should-specify-rules-requires-root`

## 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