Bug#786690: pbuilder fails to builds package with dpkg-dev 1.18.0 (dpkg-buildpackage -S)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Yves-Alexis!

I ran into the same problem and I think the only real solution is
switching over to sbuild which most Debian people and buildds use
anyway. It's also faster (especially with btrfs snapshots and easier
to set up.

pbuilder always had the problems with certain pre-dependencies which
required certain debhelper packages to be installed outside the chroot
for the package build to work. It also has long-standing issues like
this one [1] which prevents pbuilder to properly work with gbp.

Oh, and maybe this bug should be bumped to severity serious as
currently pbuilder is completely unusable.

Cheers,
Adrian

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=703969

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