[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#893226: sbuild: Error reading configuration: LINTIAN binary 'lintian' does not exist

[Adam Borowski]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.74.0-1
Severity: important

Hi!
Even with unmodified conffiles and ~/.sbuildrc moved away, sbuild fails at
startup with:

Error reading configuration: LINTIAN binary 'lintian' does not exist or is not
executable at /usr/share/perl5/Sbuild/Conf.pm line 76.

You need to either add a hard Depends on lintian, or to handle its lack
gracefully.  And, lintian gets run entirely within the chroot, right?  If
so, what's the point of requiring it on the host...

Obviously, a machine one can even think of running sbuild has enough storage
that installing lintian with all its dependencies is not exactly a burden.


Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-rc4-00028-gace1e265867f (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.117
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.74.0-1
ii  perl            5.26.1-5

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  autopkgtest  5.1
ii  debootstrap  1.0.93+nmu1
ii  schroot      1.6.10-4

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
pn  deborphan  <none>
ii  kmod       25-1
ii  wget       1.19.4-1

-- no debconf information