[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#529281: sbuild and the Distribution field in .changes

[Jakub Wilk]

(Dropping #647028 from CC. Roger's message, and most of Thorsten's 
message had nothing to do with lintian...)

* Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net>, 2011-10-29, 18:59:
>it's now possible to run dpkg-parsechangelog and change the 
>distribution default when building locally.  This is the case right 
>now.
>
>This still doesn't solve the problem of building a local .dsc, which 
>would require an unpack of the source package to determine the 
>distribution, but does solve it for unpacked sources. Adding support 
>for using a .changes file in place of a .dsc is still on my TODO, list.

The idea of running sbuild on *.changes sounds very weird to me, but as 
long as I don't have to use it, I don't really mind.

I understand that if you have only .dsc at hand, you need to know which 
chroot to use. So make -c mandatory if -d is not given, and the problem 
is solved.

>Once a .changes is accepted, we could only permit setting the 
>distribution in buildd mode.

Why? Auto-detecting distribution is good, but what's wrong with an 
option to set it manually?

-- 
Jakub Wilk