[Fakeroot-commits] [SCM] fakeroot branch, upstream, updated. debian/1.14.3-200-gb232f8a
Clint Adams
clint at debian.org
Tue Aug 23 13:06:33 UTC 2011
The following commit has been merged in the upstream branch:
commit dcd8e578f315f33f101a4a466ecb6175b13b1720
Author: Clint Adams <clint at debian.org>
Date: Mon Mar 28 11:00:41 2011 -0400
Patch from Justin B. Rye to improve short and long package descriptions. closes: #615852.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5a5b4e8..27fca62 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,12 +10,9 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/clint/fakeroot.git;a=summary
Package: fakeroot
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: Gives a fake root environment
- This package is intended to enable something like:
- dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
- i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build.
- This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so,
- which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod,
- stat, and so on, thereby creating a fake root environment.
- .
- fakeroot requires SYSV IPC or TCP to operate.
+Description: tool for simulating superuser privileges
+ fakeroot provides a fake "root environment" by means of LD_PRELOAD and
+ SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(),
+ stat(), and other file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged
+ users can (for instance) populate .deb archives with root-owned files;
+ various build tools use fakeroot for this by default.
--
fakeroot
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