Bug#884662: fakeroot: regular files sometimes treated as directories

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 00:34:38 +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:39:09PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > jwilk also noted that glib-2.0's debian/rules unsets LD_PRELOAD for
> > the test suite too which strengthens the evidence that fakeroot is to
> > blame.

FTR, we did that because it confuses unit tests that talk to each other
via D-Bus (I think the in-band communication based on geteuid() was faked
and said the client was uid 0, but the SCM_CREDENTIALS message still told
the truth and said it was uid > 0, making authentication fail). If it
avoids other fakeroot issues then that's just a happy coincidence.

    smcv