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

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 05/26/2015 02:58 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> cowbuilder continues to work for me (and it’s pretty much pbuilder).
> I would ask you, Adrian, to refrain from shooting out “I think the
> only real solution is” so quickly.

Yet you do the same two paragraphs later ;). But again, there are more
issues with pbuilder. I have had many packages where I had to install
certain debhelper packages on the host system outside the chroot before
I was able to build the package. This doesn't look like a very clean
solution to me.

Furthermore, using sbuild is just way more flexible and with btrfs
snapshots, it's unbeatenly fast, really :).

> The change in dpkg-buildpackage is annoying, but has been forewarned
> since etch or thereabouts already, and I’ve already got a bloody nose
> with one package requiring stuff from its B-D to create the source
> package (due to debian/rules clean). But this likely only affects
> pdebuild, not pbuilder itself.
> 
> The fix is easy of course: don’t use pdebuild, dpkg-buildpackage -S -d
> then run the .dsc that results in with pbuilder.

Yeah, but what's the point about using pbuilder then. I don't see
anything where it beats sbuild and your only argument seems to be again
"Don't fix it, because it's old and I have used it for years" (TM) ;).

I'd be happy to be enlightened about this though.

Adrian

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