[Buildd-tools-devel] Removing strict distribution check

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

if somebody (just as a theoretical example ;) wants to built Ubuntu
packages on a Debian system via sbuild, they would have to get a warty
or hoary chroot and then do something like 'sbuild -d warty foo.dsc'.

However, sbuild spews out a 'Bad distribution' header because neither
warty nor hoary are known to them. Ubuntu does not use generic names
like 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' and thus it would be cumbersome to
hardcode their codenames into sbuild. I therefore propose the following
change:

--- sbuild.orig 2004-12-06 18:39:41.000000000 +0100
+++ sbuild      2004-12-06 18:39:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -135,8 +135,6 @@
                $main::distribution = "stable"   if $main::distribution eq "s";
                $main::distribution = "testing"  if $main::distribution eq "t";
                $main::distribution = "unstable" if $main::distribution eq "u";
-               die "Bad distribution\n"
-                       if !isin($main::distribution, keys(%main::dist_order));
        }
        elsif (/^-p/ || /^--purge/) {
                if (/^-p(.)/ || /^--purge=(.)/) {


OK to commit? Also note that you will have similar trouble when trying
to sbuild for experimental (if you care to setup an experimental
chroot), AFAIK.


cheers,

Michael