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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I usually just try to recreate the actual environment (e.g., run the
> tests as root, run them on a loopback case-insensitive fs, etc) as that
> gives a more realistic recreation.

True.  I just do not want to run the tests as root myself ;-)  I
wonder if fakeroot would give us good enough illusion for that--I
haven't used it for a long while.