[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#781075: sbuild: Breaks d-i build by assuming it is a deb

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi,

Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> (2015-03-24):
> Source: sbuild
> Version: 0.65.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i
> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: jessie-is-blocker
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The debian-installer currently FTBFS on various architectures, but the
> build itself is followed by "I: Built successfully".  Then there is a
> message later saying (something to the extend of):
> 
> """
> dpkg-deb: error: `/«CHROOT»/«BUILDDIR»/debian-installer-images_20150324_arm64.tar.gz'
> """
> 
> Which is entirely correct as the debian-installer is a "tar.gz" file.  This
> happens on both the Wheezy sbuild and the Jessie sbuild.  But only the Jessie
> version seems to be flagging the build as failed!  We believe it is related
> the commit [684c57b].

(Thanks for opening the bug report and letting -boot@ know through x-d-cc
as requested on IRC.)

Since debian-installer-images is an arch-indep “package name”, I guess
an easy way out would be to special-case it and not perform dpkg calls
on it in lib/Sbuild/Build.pm's build sub? (Even fancier, letting tar xf
do the work with that particular beast but that's another story, and I'm
afraid I'm not patching + testing sbuild right now.)

Mraw,
KiBi.
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