#817809 sbuild: breaks if the binnmu changelog contains a newline

Package:
sbuild
Source:
sbuild
Submitter:
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Date:
2025-04-09 13:33:04 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#817809#5
Date:
2016-03-10 15:08:37 UTC
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Hi,

I scheduled a binNMU with a newline in the changelog entry (by mistake
because of some copy&paste from an email), and that broke the buildds.

It'd be good to either accept that or at least fail gracefully.

Emilio
#817809#10
Date:
2016-04-03 04:33:25 UTC
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Hi Emilio,

can you give me an example sbuild invocation that produces the effect you see?

Thanks!

cheers, josch
#817809#15
Date:
2016-04-06 15:35:49 UTC
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The problem was when scheduling a binNMU through wb:

wb nmu gimagereader_3.1.2+git368fa8f-2 . ANY . unstable . -m "Rebuild against
libtesseract3."

As opposed to

wb nmu gimagereader_3.1.2+git368fa8f-2 . ANY . unstable . -m "Rebuild against libtesseract3."

Note the newline in the bad invocation.

That newline confused the buildds, which got stuck in "building" state.

Unfortunately there are no logs in e.g. https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gimagereader&arch=i386
so I can't provide that.

Cheers,
Emilio
#817809#18
Date:
2025-04-09 13:28:14 UTC
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Control: tag -1 + unreproducible

I tried this locally by passing a string with a newline to the --make-binNMU
option and was unable to make it fail. Thus, tagging with 'unreproducible'.
Maybe once somebody encounters this again we can have another try at debugging
this?

Thanks!

cheers, josch