Bug#400848: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#400848: pbuilder-satisfydepends chokes on tab characters

[John Dong]

Well, the short story is 0ubuntu2 claimed to fix the ^I but didn't --
cat -A still reveals the same ^I.

I'm using 0.161ubuntu1, which still fails to resolve dependencies with
the following error:
 -> Attempting to parse the build-deps : pbuilder-satisfydepends,v 1.29
2006/11/06 20:20:56 lool Exp $
 -> Considering build-dep debhelper (>= 5.0.0)
   -> Trying debhelper
 -> Considering build-dep gnome-pkg-tools
   -> Trying gnome-pkg-tools
 -> Considering build-dep autotools-dev
   -> Trying autotools-dev
 -> Considering build-dep cdbs
   -> Trying cdbs
 -> Considering build-dep libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.12)
   -> Trying libglib2.0-dev
 -> Considering build-dep libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10)
   -> Trying libgtk2.0-dev
 -> Considering build-dep libgnome2-dev (>=
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      Tried versions: 2.16.0-0ubuntu1
   -> Does not satisfy version, not trying
E: Could not satisfy build-dependency.

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 17:15 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, John Dong wrote:
> > Launchpad keeps a pretty good history of previous revisions, at:
> > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xchat-gnome/1:0.15-0ubuntu1
> 
>  Just for the record, I did do my homework and searched for this
>  particular version:
>     <http://people.dooz.org/~lool/debian/launchpad-xchat-gnome.png>
>  Thanks for the pointer I couldn't find by myself!
> 
>  I've grabbed ubuntu1, and I see zero difference with ubuntu2 (apart of
>  changelog):
>  bee% interdiff -z -p1 0.15-0ubuntu1/xchat-gnome_0.15-0ubuntu1.diff.gz \
>       0.15-0ubuntu2/xchat-gnome_0.15-0ubuntu2.diff.gz | lsdiff
>  xchat-gnome-0.15/debian/changelog
> 
>  Since I was able to build ubuntu2 (see attached log) past the
>  pbuilder-satisfydepends phase, I'm a bit puzzled as of why you
>  couldn't.
> 
>  Are you sure you did your tests with pbuilder 0.161?
> 
>    Bye,