[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#852365: sbuild: append-to-version may overwrite incorrect .buildinfo

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting Vagrant Cascadian (2017-01-23 22:40:13)
> Package: sbuild
> Version: 0.73.0-2
> Severity: normal
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: toolchain
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> When building a package, I wanted to test the build and do a
> source-only upload after testing the package:
> 
>   sbuild -d unstable -c sid --arch-all --source-only --run-lintian
> 
> This produced the buildinfo file epoptes_0.5.10-2_amd64.buildinfo.
> 
> Which is awesome! Thanks for the work on supporting buildinfo files!
> Very Exciting!
> 
> 
> Then I ran:
> 
>   sbuild -d UNRELEASED -c sid --arch-all --no-source \
>   --maintainer='Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org>' \
>   --append-to-version=~20170123~12.1 epoptes_0.5.10-2.dsc
> 
> It also created epoptes_0.5.10-2_amd64.buildinfo, overwriting the
> .buildinfo created with the build. I would have expected it to
> generate a buildinfo with the --append-to-version appended, rather than
> overwriting the file matching the .dsc's version.

I wouldn't because that's not what dpkg-buildpackage is doing.

See the man page of dpkg-genbuildinfo. The filename of the .buildinfo file is
generated from the source version, not the binary version.

So this bug seems to be a WONTFIX.

Do you agree?

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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