Bug#844700: pbuilder: please support build profiles

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.226.1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

When bootstrapping a package which depends on itself (directly or
through a loop), one uses e.g.

dpkg-buildpackage -Pstage1

which disables the self-dependency in Build-Depends.

However, using

pdebuild --debbuildopts -Pstage1

tries to install the self-dependency, I have to explicitly remove the
dependency from debian/control.

It would be nice if pdebuild had a way to specify a build profile, so
that it only tries to install what is needed for the bootstrap.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]  0.218
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.59
ii  debootstrap             1.0.86
ii  dpkg-dev                1.18.10
ii  wget                    1.18-4

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts  2.16.8
ii  eatmydata   105-5
ii  fakeroot    1.21-2
ii  iproute2    4.8.0-1
ii  net-tools   1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-2
ii  sudo        1.8.17p1-2

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn  cowdancer   <none>
ii  gdebi-core  0.9.5.7

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