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

[Thorsten Glaser]

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit:

>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.

It’s the Debian way to do things.


Yves-Alexis Perez dixit:

>Having to manually build the source package before is pretty painful,

Yes, but… see above.


However, I can see how we could work around this: tell pbuilder
(and cowbuilder) that a directory argument is okay as well, then
let them, in those cases, gather the information they normally
get from the .dsc from $1/debian/control.

When I’m bored (or get sufficient incentive to do it), and if
one of you is doing the NMU (or the maintainer wakes up), I might
even hack this; I roughly understand how pbuilder works, and how
this could work. I agree it’s a nice-to-have thing, I just accept
this isn’t how this has traditionally worked in Debian.

bye,
//mirabilos
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