[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#882097: sbuild: --bd-uninstallable-explainer should default to apt

[Mike Hommey]

Source: sbuild
Version: 0.73.0-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

sbuild's default resolver is apt, and its default
bd-uninstallable-explainer is dose3.

As of writing, the apt resolver fails to install the build dependencies
for firefox... and dose3 does find a solution. Which means, I'm in a
situation where the default configuration gives me useless information
about why the resolver failed to install the build dependencies because
what it uses to explain is different, and doesn't fail to find a
solution.
Even if it did fail to find a solution, that would not necessarily be
the reason apt failed in the first place.
So I think the default explainer should be apt, at least when the
resolver is apt.

Mike