On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:55:04AM +0000, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Basically, if
> dpkg-buildpackage finds the terminal and enables colors accordingly,
> there is no reason for debuild to fail at finding the terminal and
> asking dpkg to run in colorized mode.

debuild isn't failing at that.  It's attaching file descriptors to
dpkg-buildpackage's stdout/stderr to be able to tee dpkg-buildpackage's
output into the build log.  Therefore, dpkg-buildpackage doesn't detect
that it's being run in a terminal.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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