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

[Wookey]

+++ Ralf Jung [2015-09-10 17:26 +0200]:
> 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.

I think this bug is a duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745851

And yes a useful message would be a major improvement. I'm nmt sure if
a fix for that has made it into the current exerimental version.

Your workaround for now is to specify a specific distro with -d, and/or chroot with -c

Wookey
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