[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#665368: sbuild: interactive debugging support

[Colin Watson]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.62.6-1
Severity: wishlist

I switched from pbuilder to sbuild a little while ago.  On the whole it
is an inexpressibly enormous improvement.  Thank you!

The one and only thing I miss from pbuilder is that it had an option by
way of its "C" hooks (e.g.  /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/C10shell)
to run something interactively inside the chroot when a build failed.
This meant that you could fire off pbuilder and if it failed you could
debug the failure on the spot.  With sbuild, I have to use schroot,
install all the build-dependencies by hand, and do the build manually
until it fails again.  Not only is this rather cumbersome, but it can be
rather time-consuming if the failure was near the end of a very long
build.

It would be lovely to have an option to run a given interactive command
if a build failed, or even just to run a shell.  I realise this is no
use in buildd environments, but when running sbuild by hand it would be
very useful.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]