`--foreign` flag broken

Bug #1440851 reported by John Morris
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sbuild (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The `sbuild --foreign` flag is broken, and doesn't pass the `--foreign` flag to `debootstrap`. Here's a monkey patch to fix it:

    sed -i /usr/sbin/sbuild-createchroot -e '/set_conf..FOREIGN/ s/0/1/'

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Derek Chen-Becker (dchenbecker) wrote :

This was fixed in Debian back in 2015:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709864

What will it take to get this fix into Ubuntu? It's still broken in Trusty.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in sbuild (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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