Package: sbuild Version: 0.73.0-4 Severity: wishlist I’ve been using sbuild instead of pbuilder for a few years now, and I generally like it: it seems almost universally better than pbuilder.
One area where sbuild sorely lacks is configuration, though: pbuilder is very easy to set up, whereas sbuild requires reading through https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild, performing a bunch of steps, only to end up with a setup which works fine for unstable, but seems very clumsy when building packages for experimental or backports. One solution to this issue that I can see is to add a new binary package to src:sbuild which — possibly after a brief debconf prompt — performs all the necessary steps to end up with a setup that just works. What are your thoughts on this? Would patches be welcome to add such a package? -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages sbuild depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii libsbuild-perl 0.73.0-4 pn perl:any <none> Versions of packages sbuild recommends: ii autopkgtest 4.3 ii debootstrap 1.0.88 ii schroot 1.6.10-3+b1 Versions of packages sbuild suggests: ii deborphan 1.7.28.8-0.3+b1 ii kmod 23-2 ii wget 1.18-5 -- no debconf information
