Bug#679645: devscripts: debuild does not properly forward coloured output

[Ralf Jung]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.11.9
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

tools that usually produce output with colours do not do so when run by
debuild. Examples are the cmake build system (noticeably, colours work fine
when using dpkg-buildpackage) and linitan with the --color option.
As colours are very useful to quicker see what's going on, it's desirable for
debuild not to loose that information.

Kind regards,
Ralf



-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-us -uc -tc -j2"
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--info --display-info"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev   1.16.4.3
ii  libc6      2.13-33
ii  perl       5.14.2-12
ii  python     2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python2.7  2.7.3~rc2-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-2
ii  curl                      7.26.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools               2.22.2
ii  debian-keyring            2012.06.01
ii  dput                      0.9.6.3
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.4-2
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-4+b1
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libdistro-info-perl       0.10
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.8
ii  man-db                    2.6.2-1
ii  patch                     2.6.1-3
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python-debian             0.1.21
ii  python-magic              5.11-1
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.7
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-6
ii  wdiff                     1.1.2-1
ii  wget                      1.13.4-3
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20120614-1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.5
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  heirloom-mailx [mailx]       12.5-2
pn  libauthen-sasl-perl          <none>
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.20-1
pn  mutt                         <none>
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.0p1-2
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-8

-- no debconf information