Bug#852434: cowbuilder: does not work any more

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: cowbuilder
Version: 0.84
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

tglase at tglase:/tmp $ c dpo --hookdir /home/tglase/.hook/ --debbuildopts "-m'$DEBEMAIL'" --binary-arch --build glibc_2.24-9.dsc
+ sudo env 'DIST=dpo' 'LANG=C' 'LC_CTYPE=C' 'LC_NUMERIC=C' 'LC_TIME=C' 'LC_COLLATE=C' 'LC_MONETARY=C' 'LC_MESSAGES=C' 'LC_PAPER=C' 'LC_NAME=C' 'LC_ADDRESS=C' 'LC_TELEPHONE=C' 'LC_MEASUREMENT=C' 'LC_IDENTIFICATION=C' 'LC_ALL=C' 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libeatmydata' 'LD_PRELOAD=libeatmydata.so' cowbuilder --hookdir /home/tglase/.hook/ --debbuildopts '-m'\''Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de>'\' --binary-arch --build glibc_2.24-9.dsc
E: Unknown operation: --hookdir

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages cowbuilder depends on:
ii  cowdancer    0.84
ii  libc6        2.24-8
ii  libncurses5  6.0+20161126-1
ii  libtinfo5    6.0+20161126-1
ii  pbuilder     0.228.2

cowbuilder recommends no packages.

cowbuilder suggests no packages.

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