[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#812361: sbuild: provide easy support for sourceful uploads

[Wookey]

Source: sbuild
Severity: wishlist

I always want to do an sbuild build of a package in a clean chroot
before uploading. These days it is best practice to do sourceful
uploads, so having a way to get a foo_version_source.changes at the
end of the build instead of (or as well as) a foo_version_arch.changes
would be very handy.

Currently I do sbuild -s -A to make sure that the source and binary I
upload match. Otherwise it is too easy to make a change in the
unpackaged packages, forget dpkg-buildpackage -S, and then
sbuild-clean-chroot test the previous .dsc

Using -A alone you are likely to upload a binary with the corresponding
source missing and it getting rejected.

So having one run that would test the clean build, and produce the
sourceful-upload changes file that was defintely for the corresponding
source, would be something I'd use as standard workflow.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)