[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#826847: Bug#826847: sbuild: override default debootstap's /etc/apt/sources.list

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Thu, 09 Jun 2016, Luca Capello wrote:
> Thank you, I missed that "apt-get build-dep" requires deb-src.
> 
> And for "apt-get source" I forgot that by default sbuild builds binary
> packages, which means that the sources could already be in the archive.
> 
> Tagging the bug as wontfix (not really a bug) and closing it, thank you
> for the explanation.  I have just added the sources to our internal APT
> mirror ;-)

Note that sbuild works fine without "deb-src" lines if you feed it a .dsc.
It grabs build dependencies directly from the extracted source package.

So your initial request might still make some sense.

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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