[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#782532: Bug#782532: sbuild: Error creating ubuntu chroot: debfoster not found

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:25:36 -0400 (EDT) Geoffrey Thomas <geofft at ldpreload.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Dima Kogan wrote:
> 
> >    I: Checking component main on http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
> >    E: Couldn't find these debs: debfoster
> 
> It's worth noting that one of the Ubuntu patches is to remove the use of 
> debfoster.
> 
> If there's a clever / robust way to make sbuild detect whether the target 
> distro is Debian or Ubuntu, and conditionalize debfoster on that, that would
> both fix this bug and remove one of the deltas in Ubuntu.

or maybe even better:

Figure out why debfoster is required for sbuild in Debian.

Maybe it can just be removed altogether.

Is there a reason that this hasn't been done yet?

cheers, josch
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