Source: fakeroot
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: sharutils, libc6-dev-s390x [s390], libc6-dev-sparc64 [sparc], libc6-dev-i386 [amd64], amd64-libs-dev [i386] | lib6-dev-amd64 [i386], libc6-dev-ppc64 [powerpc], libc6-dev-powerpc [ppc64], lib64gcc1 [i386], po4a (>= 0.23)
Maintainer: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.6.2

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.