[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#478524: Bug#479556: Bug#474413: Problem with autobuild of libtommath/0.39-2

[Guillem Jover]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 19:41:10 +0000, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand why the build target
> is called in the first place.  Can't you just run "debian/rules
> binary-arch" -- which is mandated by policy -- and everything will be ok
> because of the target dependancies in debian/rules.  Why use build at
> all -- especially since dpkg-buildpackage can't determine the "right"
> thing with build/build-arch?!?

build does not require root privs, binary-* do.

regards,
guillem