[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#333294: should try to get a default mirror location from local sources.list file

[Eduard Bloch]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.135
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

it seems that pbuilder tries to get the basedebs from some hardcoded FTP
mirror URL, http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian. This is maybe fine for the
maintainer, but not for us in the outside world. In fact, it should try
to get the mirror URL from the local sources.list file and only fall
back on the hardcoded value if that does not work (and announce what it
does, LODLY). Otherwise, it can suck hundreds of megabytes from external
mirrors though the user most likely does not want to do that because the
outside traffic costs money while a local mirror may be available and
known in the apt configuration on the host system.

Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.3.9      Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     5.2.1-2.1  The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   2.14.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gcc                           4:4.0.1-3  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.10.1-1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.9.7      Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.4      Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.6.8p9-3  Provide limited super user privile

-- no debconf information