[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#488827: fails to obtain orig tarball when building a -2 package

[Johannes Schauer]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi,

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:22:39 +0100 martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> [2010.10.31.2229 +0100]:
> > sbuild and/or apt-get aren't clever enough to get some locally and some
> > remote e.g. .dsc/.diff.gz locally and the .orig from a mirror).
> 
> I think this is the problem and shortcoming. If I generate a *_source.changes
> file for a -2 package, the orig tarball will not be included, nor will the
> .dsc file reference it — *because* it is assumed to be publicly available.
> 
> sbuild can install build-dependencies, so it already interacts with an APT
> mirror. Wouldn't it make sense and be possible for it to also install missing
> source package components, or at least to try?

this could be done but what is your usecase? In which situation would you have
a source-only .changes file but *not* the original source tarball around?

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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