[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#551311: Please provide debuild like functionality for sbuild

[Andres Mejia]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.59.1~rc1
Severity: wishlist


It would be great if it were possible to build packages in a similar fashion as
you would via debuild, whether it be via sbuild or some new script, perhaps one
named sdebuild.

What I mean is, let's say an sdebuild script is written. You would run sdebuild
in the source tree of a debianized program and it will create the source
packages to be run via sbuild and after a build, it could optionally run
lintian, run piuparts, sign your packages, etc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.111      add and remove users and groups
ii  libsbuild-perl                0.59.1~rc1 Tool for building Debian binary pa
ii  perl                          5.10.1-5   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.1-5   Core Perl modules

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.20     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.14       Gives a fake root environment

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  wget                          1.12-1     retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information