[Buildd-tools-devel] [PATCH] Make sbuild-upgrade call dist-upgrade

[Roger Leigh]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:25:09PM +0100, martin f. krafft wrote:
> From: martin f. krafft <madduck at madduck.net>
> 
> upgrade doesn't install new packages or removes old ones, so it's unsuitable
> for the upgrade of a sid system. dist-upgrade, on the other hand, should work
> fine on a stable system.

Thanks for the patch!

One reason we use upgrade rather than dist-upgrade is so that in a
chroot used for building, broken dependencies won't result in key
packages such as build-essential being removed.  That said, I haven't
seen this happen in practice, and even if it did, it's not exactly hard
work to debootstrap a new one.

As a result, I'd like to either
1) Add a new command, sbuild-distupgrade, to do a dist-upgrade rather
   than an upgrade
2) Add the patch, but provide a command-line option to force it to not
   do a full dist-upgrade.

(1) is easiest, but has the disadvantage of adding another sbuild-foo
command.  Do you have any preference?


Regards,
Roger

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