[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#391096: pdebuild: should not leave temporary source package in ..

[Yann Dirson]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.159
Severity: normal

The temporary source package built to pass the source to pbuilder itself
is of no use to the user, since it is in fact obsoleted by the one
generated by the pbuilder run.  It should be generated in a temporary
directory instead and cleaned afterwards.  That probably means
identifying the orig tarball first, and using it as second argument to
"dpkg-source -b".

In fact, copying the results files back into .. (as seen suggested in
various other reports) would be the next step.  Today I keep using
"cp -a .../results/*_version_* .." whenever pdebuild has finished,
which, aside being a PITA, occasionally produces a mess when some of the
temporary source files are kept for some reason.

As a side-effect, the results in .. would allow --auto-debsign to work
(see #390953).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (90, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-smp-gbbde1285
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.3.11     Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5     The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   2.17       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   0.3.3      Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  gcc                           4:4.1.1-7  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.10.2-2   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  cowdancer                     0.23       Copy-on-write directory tree utili
ii  devscripts                    2.9.21     Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.10     Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.6.8p12-4 Provide limited super user privile

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