Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Accepted grub2 2.02~beta2-7 (source i386)]

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Accepted grub2 2.02~beta2-7 (source i386)]"):
> On the sbuild side:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529281
> 
> tl;dr: extensive discussion of why this mistake is easy to make and
> why sbuild can't trivially fix it; Raphael Hertzog suggests making
> "sbuild foo_source.changes" do the right thing; Thorsten Glaser
> suggests lintian autorejects for certain particularly bad and likely
> combinations; Roger Leigh points out that just "sbuild" with no .dsc
> file will now do the right thing.

If you use dgit, you cannot make this mistake :-).

(Of course I'm aware that there are reasons why a maintainer might not
want to use dgit right now, principally the poor interoperation with
`3.0 (quilt)'.)

Ian.