lucascs@protonmail.com Lucas Couto fakeroot runs a command in an environment where it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation: it intercepts the libc calls that read and change file ownership and permissions, keeping the pretend values in a database instead of touching the real filesystem. That is what lets an unprivileged user build packages whose contents have to be owned by root. This is a temporary mirror of the ::gentoo package. ::gentoo carries 1.33 (2025); fakeroot is developed in Debian, which moved to the 2.x series in July 2026. Remove this package once ::gentoo catches up. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=fakeroot