[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#498276: sbuild: Fails in chroots with dpkg-dev <1.13.9 (<=sarge)

[Stephan Suerken]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.57.4-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

in version 1.13.9 of dpkg, dpkg-source got a second argument for -x;
versions before 1.13.9 just fail when they receive a second argument:

  $ sarge? dpkg-source -sn -x mypack_1.2.3-1.dsc mypack_1.2.3-1
  dpkg-source: -x needs exactly one argument, the .dsc

sbuild always uses a second argument, thusly all builds in chroots
<=sarge fail.

It would be nice if one could ponder at run time what version of
dpkg-source is present, and omit the argument for versions <1.13.9.

Thx,

Stephan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                           0.7.14+b1  Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  dctrl-tools                   2.13.0     Command-line tools to process Debi
ii  devscripts                    2.10.35    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.20    Debian package development tools
ii  perl                          5.10.0-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-13  Core Perl modules
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.4-1    High-performance mail transport ag
ii  schroot                       1.2.1-1    Execute commands in a chroot envir

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.10     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.9.5      Gives a fake root environment

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan                     1.7.26     program that can find unused packa
ii  wget                          1.11.4-1   retrieves files from the web

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