[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#875445: sbuild: Allow the user to override the dpkg-buildpackage command

[Ximin Luo]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.73.0-4
Severity: wishlist
Control: block 847805 by -1

Dear Maintainer,

In order to make some build variations effective, reprotest(1) wraps the
user's build command in various wrappers like faketime(1), setarch(8), etc.

In sbuild, some of this can be done with --pre-build-commands but not all of
them. It would be good if sbuild(1) allowed the user to specify an override for
the dpkg-buildpackage invocation itself, something like

sbuild --builder='faketime +373days+7hours+13minutes linux32 dpkg-buildpackage'

etc.

X

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.116
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.73.0-4
ii  perl            5.26.0-5

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  autopkgtest  4.4
ii  debootstrap  1.0.91
ii  schroot      1.6.10-4

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan  <none>
ii  kmod       24-1
ii  wget       1.19.1-4

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