[Buildd-tools-devel] Removing strict distribution check

[Andreas Barth]

* Michael Banck (mbanck@debian.org) [041206 18:55]:
> 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.

Sorry, I disagree. Just make the main::dist_order a configuration
variable (if it not already is), and you can configure whatever you
want. (At least that's the way I use for building experimental packages
since months.)


Cheers,
Andi
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