On Tuesday, November 11, 2025 1:46:17 AM Mountain Standard Time Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Xiyue Deng (2025-11-11 08:48:24) > > > > I do not see that page recommending -s or --source. Where does it do that? > > > > > > You really do *not* want to run sbuild with -s or --source. If you have > > > ideas > > > on how I could make the documentation more clear about this I'd be happy > > > to > > > improve it. > > > > > > So many people add -s to sbuild that I am tempted to remove the option for > > > good. > > > > The option is named `$build_source' in the example config. I attempted > > to updated the comment of this part and set its value to 0[1]. Please > > feel free to update it in a more definitive manner. > > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild?action=diff&rev1=330&rev2=331 > > thank you! Since a lot of people seem to be reading the wiki page about sbuild > instead of its man page I took the liberty of completely deleting the > `$build_source` (don't give people ideas) and added an extra section at the > end to explicitly advice against the use of -s or --source. > > Soren, I put you into CC because you original added the advice of using sbuild > with $build_source=1 here: > https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild?action=diff&rev1=288&rev2=289 Thanks for making that change. I had misunderstood what the option did. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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