[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#553301: sbuild: should display version from packages already installed on the chroot

[Felipe Sateler]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.59.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Sometimes, a build failure is caused by a change introduced in one of
the build-dependencies. It would help to see which versions of the
packages are already installed in the chroot to identify these (and
maybe build-conflicts). I think a simple dpkg -l before installing
build-deps woud suffice.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'karmic'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.111      add and remove users and groups
ii  libsbuild-perl                0.59.0-1   Tool for building Debian binary pa
ii  perl                          5.10.1-5   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules                  5.10.1-5   Core Perl modules

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.20     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  fakeroot                      1.14       Gives a fake root environment

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan                     1.7.28     program that can find unused packa
ii  wget                          1.12-1     retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information