Bug#875677: devscripts: mk-build-deps creates the build-dep package in the wrong directory

[James McCoy]

Control: reassign -1 equivs 2.1.0
Control: affects -1 + devscripts

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 02:26:55PM +0200, Jiri Palecek wrote:
> while making a build-dep package, mk-build-deps writes:
> 
> dpkg-deb: vytvářím balík ,,kwin-build-deps" v ,,../kwin-build-deps_5.10.5-2_i386.deb".
> 
> The package has been created.
> Attention, the package has been created in the current directory,
> not in ".." as indicated by the message above!
> 
> However, the generated package is not in the current directory as
> stated, nor in the parent directory, but in $TMP. Please fix that, or
> the message.

That message is generated by equivs-build.  That equivs-build actually
honors $TMPDIR now is a recent change, which isn't documented in the man
page and isn't reflected in the output, as noted above.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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