[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#546555: Bug#546555: sbuild: Please add support to supply remote source (.dsc) files

[Andres Mejia]

On Monday 14 September 2009 00:00:48 Andres Mejia wrote:
> Package: sbuild
> Version: 0.59.1~rc1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Please allow sbuild to build from remote source files as well as files on
>  the local system.
> 
> Here are patches that I've implemented for the current git version. It adds
> three new utility subroutines and uses them to download files from the web.
> Basically, on top of supporting passing in local dsc files and
>  [PACKAGE_VERSION] to get sources via apt, you can now supply a url of a
>  dsc file on the web, and sbuild will use these source files to build the
>  corresponding packages just like it does now.
> 
> I had to change how dsc_files() was parsing dsc files because of some
>  problem I was experiencing with dcmd. The new way of parsing the dsc file
>  is better I think. This takes out a dependency from devscripts I think,
>  but will need a dependency on libwww-perl.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (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                       3.110      add and remove users and
>  groups ii  libsbuild-perl                0.59.1~rc1 Tool for building
>  Debian binary pa ii  perl                          5.10.0-25  Larry Wall's
>  Practical Extraction ii  perl-modules                  5.10.0-25  Core
>  Perl modules
> 
> Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
> ii  debootstrap                   1.0.15     Bootstrap a basic Debian
>  system ii  fakeroot                      1.13       Gives a fake root
>  environment
> 
> Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
> ii  deborphan                     1.7.28     program that can find unused
>  packa ii  wget                          1.11.4-4   retrieves files from
>  the web
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

I think using LWP::UserAgent should be optional to avoid a dependency on libwww-
perl, so here's a third patch that will allow sbuild to work with or without 
LWP::UserAgent. Supplying a remote .dsc file will still need LWP::UserAgent 
however.

-- 
Regards,
Andres
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