> > I still think sbuild is the way to go. > > I still think sbuild is not the way to go and would rather see sbuild > modified to handle the new source format.
sbuild will automatically use a new source format as soon as dpkg-source knows it :-) Actually, sbuild is just a (rather blown-up :-) wrapper around dpkg-source and dpkg-buildpackage. It's main task are source dependencies, of course. However, it also does a lot of minor, but nevertheless useful things (most for batch building): getting sources from multiple locations (local or FTP), keeping log files, timeouts, store built packages that are src-deps for later builds, statistics, patches, ... For my part, I wouldn't mind if dpkg-buildpackage would check src-deps, but there should be an option to skip this. sbuild already has checked src-deps, so this would be double work. My personal view of sbuild is that it's a tool for mass builds. If Debian wants to adopt it as replacement for dpkg-buildpackage, please go ahead, I won't mind :-) But it was written with a different intention. Roman
