[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#588818: sbuild: DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive missing when using the aptitude resolver

[Cyril Brulebois]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.60.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Breaks builds and/or chroots

Hi,

as mentioned earlier, DEBIAN_FRONTEND doesn't get set to noninteractive
when using the aptitude resolver. The internal one uses run_apt, which
takes care of setting a sane(r) environment, while the aptitude one
calls aptitude directly, w/o setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive in
the environment.

That broke building a package pulling some debconf-using
build-dependencies, and interrupting the build broke the chroots,
meaning manual cleanup. Hence the severity.

Mraw,
KiBi.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  libsbuild-perl                0.60.0-1   Tool for building Debian binary pa
ii  perl                          5.10.1-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.1-13  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  wget                          1.12-2     retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information