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by regularfry 4462 days ago
Unfortunately checkinstall has an inconvenient bug on (at least) Debian Wheezy which makes sudo required for package building under some circumstances.
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infinity0 4462 days ago
How so? What goes wrong with `make && sudo checkinstall make install`?
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regularfry 4462 days ago
Filesystem translation has a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717778 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkinstall/+bug/...

This manifests itself by any "mkdir -p" which requires root in the `make install` phase failing.

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