[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#451835: pbuilder --create --basetgz <file> expects <file> to be existing

[Steffen Moeller]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.174
Severity: important

Hello,

I called pbuilder with a lot of options, and it failed, telling me that
the argument after --basetgz (../sparc_base.tgz) was not existing. But
pbuilder was supposed to create it, it was called with --create.
After omitting the --basetgz option, the default path was chosen and the
file created there. 

The behavior was found on sparc in version 0.174. I am confident that it
has worked in earlier versions. This new behaviour is fairly likely to 
confuse a number of scripts, hence the tag "important".

Best

Steffen


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap         0.4.3               Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils            6.0-1               The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils          2.27.1              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap          1.0.6               Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  gcc                  4:4.2.1-6           The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                 1.10.2+1.11.beta1-1 retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  cowdancer                     0.43       Copy-on-write directory tree utili
ii  devscripts                    2.10.10    Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.8.2      Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.6.9p6-1  Provide limited super user privile

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