Package: sbuild Version: 0.65.2-1 Severity: normal Hi.
sbuild has commandline options to run generic commands at various points in time (--pre-build-commands for instance). Rather than taking strings given in these options and passing them to a shell, sbuild instead manipulates these strings in ways that make only the most simplistic commands work. Things that don't work include redirection, multiple commands separated by ;, subshells etc. For instance, I can't run an arbitrary command in an arbitrary directory. Something like this should work: --pre-build-commands 'cd directory; do_thing' but it doesn't. Sbuild splits the string on whitespace, throws out all ' (with a warning), then encloses each work in '', and prepends a directory switch. So the above becomes /bin/sh -c cd /home/user && 'cd' 'directory;' 'do_thing' It would make way more sense to take the string as is, enclose in () and pass it through: /bin/sh -c cd /home/user && (cd directory; do_thing) Would a patch that does this be accepted? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
