On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Christopher Hoskin wrote:
> Using backportpackage with the -b and --builder=sbuild options produces a 
> .changes file for release rather than release-backports.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> backportpackage -b -w build --builder=sbuild --destination=stretch 
> --suffix=~bpo9+1 dh-golang
> 
> cat build/buildresult/dh-golang_1.34~debian9.0.1~bpo9+1_amd64.changes | grep 
> Distribution
> Distribution: stretch
> 
> This appears to be different to the behaviour with --builder=pbuilder. I 
> think pbuilder uses the release specified in debian/changelog to produce the 
> .changes file, whereas sbuild overrides this with the option passed to it in 
> --dist.

This is exactly what is happening.

ubuntutools/builder.py in Sbuild().build() uses --dist; that's the wrong
flag, and should most likely be --chroot, but changing this is sure to
break somebody's setup, so I'm relucanct to do it.
Not to mention that I don't use sbuild.

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