[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#807744: sbuild: aptitude 0.7.5-2 breaks sbuild upon install-deps

[Luca Falavigna]

Source: sbuild
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

aptitude_0.7.5-2 breaks sbuild during its install-deps stage, when aptitude is
used as resolver to install build-dependencies.

This is the offending commit:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/aptitude/aptitude.git/commit/?h=debian-
sid&id=a865d7dd4040273eda0c012cfd20862de3c6622f

This is the portion of the log which exposes the problem:
Writing extended state information...
Building tag database...
E: Could not create directory: /sbuild-nonexistent/.cache:
boost::filesystem::create_directory: No such file or directory: "/sbuild-
nonexistent/.cache"



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)