Bug#807406: pbuilder: drop all the 'xenial' hardcoding in debian/rules and make the selection of the distro dynamic

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.221.2
Severity: wishlist
User: pbuilder at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pbuilder
X-Debbugs-Cc: LocutusOfBorg at debian.org

With this upload I added a ifeq stanza in d/rules to automate the delta
that was done in ubuntu, including setting the default DISTRIBUTION to
xenial, the current development version.
They used to upload a new pbuilder at the start of every development
cycle to at least change that, that's bad.
In a sense this is not a regression, I just moved this hardcoding from
ubuntu to debian, but it'd be nice to get rid of it once and for all.

Suggestions includes using distro-info for getting the current
development version, but if run at runtime means a new dep (even if
light and most probably already installed on development machines), and
at build-time is still not granted to be run, ubuntu afaik does not
assure the packages to be rebuilt for every release.

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                        Mattia Rizzolo

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