Bug#659583: pbuilderrc manpage doesn't mention that quotes are needed around multiple components

[Maarten Bezemer]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.204ubuntu0~ppa1
Severity: normal


Reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pbuilder/+bug/609106

The manpage pbuilderrc(5) states:

       COMPONENTS=main
               Specify the default distribution components to use. This option is space-delimited. This
               option only affects when doing pbuilder create or when --override-config is specified for
               pbuilder update option.

However, using the line:

       COMPONENTS=main universe

will fail with a message that the universe command cannot be found - because this value is space-delimited, it is interpreted as two separate commands. The man page should be changed to show the value in quotes:

       COMPONENTS="main"



The manpage of pbuilderc(5) contains more of these inconsistencies, for example

       DEBEMAIL=Maintainer Name <Mail at Address>

is also not working without the quotes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oneiric-security
  APT policy: (990, 'oneiric-security'), (900, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric'), (400, 'oneiric-proposed'), (100, 'oneiric-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  coreutils                8.5-1ubuntu6    GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.40ubuntu1   Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils              4.0.2           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap              1.0.37          Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  wget                     1.12-3.1ubuntu1 retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts              2.11.1ubuntu3    scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                1.17-1           tool for simulating superuser priv
ii  sudo                    1.7.4p6-1ubuntu2 Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  pbuilder/rewrite: false
  pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
  pbuilder/nomirror: