Package: cowbuilder Version: 0.73 Severity: wishlist I am often using cowbuilder with fairly consistent chroot locations. I have done my best to document this setup with git-buildpackage here:
https://wiki.debian.org/cowbuilder#Using_with_git-buildpackage I am using the pbuilderrc from Ubuntu documented here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto This is all very messy. It seems to me cowbuilder itself would gain a lot from being able to generate consistent --basepath defaults based on the --dist and --arch arguments, not only at creation but also at build time. Tools like cowpoke go through convoluted steps to work around this limitation right now: http://sources.debian.net/src/devscripts/2.16.2/scripts/cowpoke.sh/#L341 ... in a layout that is different from git-buildpackage's. The result is that we have inconsistent locations for those chroots among different tools, because there are no reasonable defaults in cowbuilder. Adding such a default would improve the consistency of this across tools. A. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cowbuilder depends on: ii cowdancer 0.73 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4 ii pbuilder 0.215+nmu3 cowbuilder recommends no packages. cowbuilder suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
