Hello, On Tue 23 Jul 2019 at 06:22PM +02, Johannes Schauer wrote: > that is correct. Indeed the source package is the way how the sources are > copied into the chroot so sbuild cannot operate at all without having a source > package first. And that source package is built *outside* the chroot. > > That sbuild is able to build source packages itself is either a convenience > feature or a misfeature (I'm leaning to toward the latter) because the source > package is the *input* to sbuild, not the output. Thanks for confirming. I guess a possibly-helpful way to put this point would be that sbuild is not intended to be a replacement for all of dpkg-buildpackage. -- Sean Whitton
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