Re: don't use sbuild --dist/-d and other sbuild stuff (was: Re: Questions before my first upload attempt)

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>, 2015-08-31, 17:06:
> > > So please don't further advertise the -d or --dist option anymore if 
> > > you actually want to use the -c or --chroot option instead!
> >
> > Um, except that -d/--dist is obligatory. Without it you get:
> >
> > No distribution defined
>
> indeed I must've made an error when testing this. This just makes the 
> whole problem even worse...
>
> So now the advise becomes: never let the argument to -d/--dist be 
> different from what you want to have in the distribution field in your 
> changes file.

Right. :)

Some relevant bugs:
#529281 (in sbuild),
#542747 (in Lintian).

You may want to use dput-ng, which (by default) doesn't let you upload a 
package when there's discrepancy between Changes and Distribution.

--
Jakub Wilk