This packages behaves a bit wierdly inside Scratchbox 1, by design. When building it with dpkg-buildpackage or equivalent, it will disable all devkits and adjust PATH. This means that almost all build dependencies will come from your installed packages, and not from Scratchbox or the configured devkits. Since some of our packages do not work with Scratchboxes fakeroot (because the latter is too old), you should use the targets fakeroot instead. You can disable this behavior by setting SBOX_DONT_SANITIZE in the environment. When this package is build in a certain buildbot, it will go further and permantly change the Scratchbox target. This should not happen to anyone but the buildbot, but there is a chance it will happen to you by accident. The buildbot is recognized via the $USER environment variable. If it matches "bifh[0-9]", the permanent changes will be done. The permanent changes mostly consist of running apt-get dist-upgrade and making sure that the targets fakeroot is used. This weirdness is brought to you by: http://maemo.gitorious.org/maemo-af/maemoify-tools