[PATCH 0/3] running tests as fakeroot

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

The Debian build system makes it very tempting to build as
fakeroot: basically, one has a choice of

  debian/rules build
  fakeroot debian/rules binary

or just

  fakeroot debian/rules binary

to build a .deb from the current sources.  I hadn’t succumbed
to temptation until today; but now that I have, I want to fix it.
I’ll discuss whether this is a good idea more in patch 3.

Patches 1 and 2 are a bit simpler.  Patch 1 allows tests to have
multiple prerequisites, which seems like a good idea generally;
patch 2 adds a missing POSIXPERM prerequisite to an existing test.

I hope you like the patches.  Sorry for the huge cc list; I did a
quick search to find people interested one way or another, and
aparently there are many.  I am sending patches 1 and 2 only to the
git list to avoid making the problem worse.

Thoughts?
Jonathan Nieder (3):
  test-lib: tests can have multiple prerequisites
  t1004 (read-tree): the unremovable symlink test requires POSIXPERM
  Permit tests to be run as a (fake) root user

 t/t1004-read-tree-m-u-wf.sh |    2 +-
 t/test-lib.sh               |   22 ++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)