[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#803505: sbuild: Run build-deps-failed-commands on apt-get-update fail stage too

[Luca Falavigna]

Source: sbuild
Version: 0.66.0-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

sometimes my builds fail because of issues during apt-get-update phase. To
handle these cases, I would like to use --build-deps-failed-commands (or
alternatively --anything-failed-commands), but it seems neither of them are
triggered on apt-get-update failed stage.

Would it be possible to extend the scope of build-deps-failed-commands to
address this scenario too? After all, "Run  these  commands  we tried to
install the dependencies but failed for whatever reason" is somewhat included,
as build-deps won't be processed at all if update is not completed
successfully...

Alternatively, having another command type like --apt-get-update-failed-
commands would be fine too!



-- 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)