[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#756589: sbuild: set DH_VERBOSE to get verbose build logs from buildds

[Simon McVittie]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.64.1-1
Severity: wishlist

In #551463 and #680686, people requested that debhelper should automatically
pass --disable-silent-rules to Automake build systems for the jessie
"verbose build logs" release goal.

Joey was reluctant to enable this by default (to avoid package maintainers
getting sufficiently verbose logs when developing that warnings are not
readily visible), but did merge a patch to do so when DH_VERBOSE is set
(#751207), with the suggestion that the buildds should enable it.

sbuild is a more or less non-interactive build even when not on a buildd,
and produces copious output regardless of debhelper settings, so I think
it would be reasonable for it to set DH_VERBOSE by default.

Regards,
    S

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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

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