On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:49:27PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > (Dropping #647028 from CC. Roger's message, and most of Thorsten's > message had nothing to do with lintian...) > > * Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net>, 2011-10-29, 18:59: > >it's now possible to run dpkg-parsechangelog and change the > >distribution default when building locally. This is the case > >right now. > > > >This still doesn't solve the problem of building a local .dsc, > >which would require an unpack of the source package to determine > >the distribution, but does solve it for unpacked sources. Adding > >support for using a .changes file in place of a .dsc is still on > >my TODO, list. > > The idea of running sbuild on *.changes sounds very weird to me, but > as long as I don't have to use it, I don't really mind. > > I understand that if you have only .dsc at hand, you need to know > which chroot to use. So make -c mandatory if -d is not given, and > the problem is solved.
This would indeed solve the problem. The main issue preventing this would be the breaking of interface backward compatibility for sbuild users. > >Once a .changes is accepted, we could only permit setting the > >distribution in buildd mode. > > Why? Auto-detecting distribution is good, but what's wrong with an > option to set it manually? Is there ever a legitimate use for this? That is, uploading to Debian a package where the distribution in the .changes does not match the one in debian/changelog? Or even when building for local use? The -d option currently serves two roles: • overriding of the distribution in the .changes • selecting the build chroot I would argue that the former is only required on the buildds, but nowadays we're using schroot and even this is tenuous--it's easy to add aliases for e.g. stable-proposed-updates for stable etc. The selection of the build chroot just provides a default chroot to use if --chroot it's used to manually specify one. It would certainly be possible to alter -d to only do the latter when not in buildd mode, and potentially disable entirely should the consensus be to do so. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
