[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#432192: Bug#432192: debsign does not know about arch

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > > I've amd64 Debian on my workstation. Using pbuilder I created an environment
> > > to build i386 packages using pdebuild. Everything works good except signing
> > > the package. At the end of build process I receive an error message:
> > > debsign: Can't find or can't read changes file /home/arturcz/debs/sid32/libqglviewer_2.2.2-3-0+4_amd64.changes!
> > > There is libqglviewer_2.2.2-3-0+4_i386.changes file to be signed.
> > 
> > you're forgetting to set DEB_HOST_ARCH
> You're right.
> Please consider my bugreport as a wishlist to create an unified support
> for pbuilder arch differs from host arch. It would be nice to put just
> sth like: PBUILDER_ARCH=foo into .pbuilderrc and use it ether for create
> a brand new pbuilder tarball as for compile package for different arch.
> Or, if you think it is unnecesary, just close the bug.
> 


Well, there is already a '--arch' option for qemubuilder, it can be
implemented to pbuilder also.


However, I think I need the full list of things that's required for
full arch support before I commit into doing arch stuff. 

I think pbuilder will treat i386 / amd64 case specially; I am not sure
if other cases really exist.



regards,
	junichi
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