[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#798568: sbuild: Silent failure when changelog suite is UNRELEASED

[Ralf Jung]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.65.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

During development of a package I usually have the suite in debian/changelog set to UNRELEASED.
Calling sbuild on such a package results in sbuild printing the meta-information of the
source package, followed by a box "Summary" - and then it freezes.
It is completely unclear in this situation what went wrong. sbuild should show a sensible error
message and then exit, rather than waiting for... something.

Kind regards,
Ralf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages sbuild depends on:
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  apt-utils       1.0.9.10
ii  libsbuild-perl  0.65.2-1
ii  perl            5.20.2-6

Versions of packages sbuild recommends:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.72
ii  fakeroot     1.20.2-1

Versions of packages sbuild suggests:
ii  deborphan  1.7.28.8-0.2
ii  wget       1.16.3-3

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