[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#757744: sbuild: Cannot pass build type options other than -b or -B to dpkg-buildpackage, with dpkg 1.17.11

[Clément Schreiner]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.64.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

starting with release 1.17.11, which just got uploaded into sid [1],
dpkg-buildpackage now accepts only one build type option (-g, -G, -b,
-B, -A, -S or -F).

The Debile [2] infrastructure builds a lot of packages with `sbuild -A
--debbuildopt=-A`. Since `sbuild -A` uses `dpkg-buildpackage -b`, the
change in dpkg-buildpackage means sbuild is now broken for us.

I'm not sure what a correct solution would be. Either adding an option
for suppressing the -b option, or adding an option for using
dpkg-buildpackage -A would be fine for us (the debile team), though
the former is probably preferable.

Here's the relevant extract from a sample sbuild log [3]:

  dpkg-buildpackage
  -----------------

  dpkg-buildpackage: cannot combine -b and -A


Let me know if you need more information.


[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg/news/20140810T011833Z.html
[2] http://debile.debian.net/
[3] http://ursae.inria.fr/debile/files/default/blinker_1.3.dfsg2-1/build_all/31/blinker_1.3.dfsg2-1_all.234.log

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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         3.113+nmu3
ii  apt-utils       1.0.6
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.64.1-1
ii  perl            5.18.2-7
ii  perl-modules    5.18.2-7

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.60
ii  fakeroot     1.20.1-1

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan  <none>
ii  wget       1.15-1+b1

-- no debconf information