[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844457: sbuild: --extra-package is great, but could be better

[Barry Warsaw]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.72.0-2
Severity: wishlist

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Dear Maintainer,

I use --extra-package to build new versions of packages that grow new
dependencies not yet in Debian.  While waiting for the latter to clear
NEW (or before the ITP-fixing upload), I can use --extra-package on
the dependency to ensure that it builds correctly.

That's great, but --extra-package is rather inconvenient because if I
have to depend on multiple .debs, I need to type out a bunch of
- --extra-package options.  E.g. to add both python-foo and python3-foo.

I have two suggestions to make this a little nicer.

1) Allow for passing wildcards to --extra-package.  Then I could do
something like `sbuild ... --extra-package=/path/to/itp/*.deb` and
have it pick up all the debs in that directory.

2) Provide a shortcut option for --extra-package.

Thanks!


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.115
ii  apt-utils       1.3.1
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.72.0-2
pn  perl:any        <none>

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.86

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  autopkgtest  4.2
pn  deborphan    <none>
ii  wget         1.18-4

- -- no debconf information

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