Package: bzr-builddeb Version: 2.7.2 Severity: normal
Changes in version 2.7 have caused bzr-builddeb to start confirming the distribution named in the changelog matches a Debian or Ubuntu distribution that it knows about. In doing so, you have rendered bzr-builddeb useless to me, and perhaps others. I maintain a private repository using reprepro for branches of packages I have tweaked or that are inapplicable to a wider audience, and to make sure that I don't accidentally upload one to a public repository, I have taken to setting the distribution in the changelog to 'private'. Unfortunately, with the update to version 2.7.2, I can no longer build such packages with bzr-builddeb, because I now get: Building branch from revision ador...@ironicdesign.com-20110322143630-ubwg87cqyrz9zo9q bzr: ERROR: Unknown distribution: private. This seems unnecessarily restrictive, and looking at the code, I can't understand why this error exists---it would seem to be a heuristic meant to be convenient to Ubuntu users, but it hardly seems like a requirement. I would recommend that this be turned into a warning, at most, or at least give a user a way to not have it be a fatal error Prior versions had no problem with any of this, and for the moment I have downgraded bzr-builddeb to 2.4 to avoid this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bzr-builddeb depends on: ii bzr 2.3.0-6 easy to use distributed version co ii devscripts 2.10.71 scripts to make the life of a Debi ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii fakeroot 1.14.5-1 Gives a fake root environment ii patchutils 0.3.2-1 Utilities to work with patches ii pristine-tar 1.12 regenerate pristine tarballs ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 interactive high-level object-orie ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii python-debian 0.1.18 Python modules to work with Debian ii python2.5 2.5.5-11 An interactive high-level object-o ii python2.6 2.6.6-8+b1 An interactive high-level object-o Versions of packages bzr-builddeb recommends: pn python-launchpadlib <none> (no description available) Versions of packages bzr-builddeb suggests: pn bzr-svn <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org