Dear Maintainer, thy typically steps tu build a pacage ist to run these steps as user "root": # apt source tar # cd tar-1.34+dfsg # apt build-dep tar # dpkg-buildpackage -B "-Pnocheck noinsttest noudeb" -uc -us This stops with an error configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check) For automate tools such stop is not nice.