[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#957206: dh_testroot: error: Package needs targeted root but builder has not provided a gain-root command via ${DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD}

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Tue Dec 1 20:21:12 GMT 2020


Andreas Tille:
> Control: tags -1 pending
> 
> Hi,
> 
> upstream of fis-gtm package[1] confirmed that the build needs some root
> permissions.  Thus I've set
> 
>    Rules-Requires-Root: yes
> 
> When trying to build with pbuilder I get:
> 
>    dh_testroot
> dh_testroot: error: Package needs targeted root but builder has not provided a gain-root command via ${DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD}
> make: *** [debian/rules:21: binary] Error 25
> 
> 
> How can this be fixed?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/fis-gtm
> 


You want "Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets".

~Niels



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