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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rootless-builds.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index c6080560c..4b630810a 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ dpkg (1.19.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium known users. * Do not set DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD in dpkg-buildpackage when the R³ value is <implementations-keywords>, following the specification. + * Specify that DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD in R³ should preserve the environment. + Proposed by Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>. * Architecture support: - Add support for riscv64 CPU. Closes: #822914 Thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org> diff --git a/doc/rootless-builds.txt b/doc/rootless-builds.txt index 29b034a8d..68617d5b4 100644 --- a/doc/rootless-builds.txt +++ b/doc/rootless-builds.txt @@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ This command is subject to the same requirements as the "gain-root-command" that dpkg-buildpackage accepts via its "-r/--root-command" option, which means that it can contain space-separated parameters. If dpkg-buildpackage is called with "-r/--root-command", then dpkg-buildpackage shall use that value -as the value for "DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD". +as the value for "DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD". The command SHOULD preserve all the +environment variables, unmodified. The variable SHOULD only be provided when there is a need for it. Notably when "Rules-Requires-Root" is either "no" or "binary-targets" the variable |