[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: fails to obtain orig tarball when building a -2 package

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Mon Nov 1 09:22:39 UTC 2010


also sprach Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> [2010.10.31.2229 +0100]:
> sbuild and/or apt-get aren't clever enough to get some locally and
> some remote e.g. .dsc/.diff.gz locally and the .orig from
> a mirror).

I think this is the problem and shortcoming. If I generate
a *_source.changes file for a -2 package, the orig tarball will not
be included, nor will the .dsc file reference it — *because* it is
assumed to be publicly available.

sbuild can install build-dependencies, so it already interacts with
an APT mirror. Wouldn't it make sense and be possible for it to also
install missing source package components, or at least to try?

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