Source: pbuilder Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian pbuilder maintenance team Uploaders: Mattia Rizzolo , James Clarke , Build-Depends: dblatex, debconf | debconf-2.0, debhelper-compat (= 11), docbook-xsl, ldp-docbook-xsl, po-debconf, po4a, xsltproc, Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://pbuilder-team.pages.debian.net/pbuilder Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/pbuilder-team/pbuilder.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/pbuilder-team/pbuilder Package: pbuilder Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: debootstrap (>= 1.0.97) | cdebootstrap, dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.0), ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: devscripts, eatmydata, fakeroot, net-tools | iproute2, sudo, Suggests: cowdancer, gdebi-core, Description: personal package builder for Debian packages pbuilder constructs a chroot system, and builds a package inside the chroot. It is an ideal system to use to check that a package has correct build-dependencies. It uses apt extensively, and a local mirror, or a fast connection to a Debian mirror is ideal, but not necessary. . "pbuilder create" uses debootstrap to create a chroot image. . "pbuilder update" updates the image to the current state of testing/unstable/whatever . "pbuilder build" takes a *.dsc file and builds a binary in the chroot image. . pdebuild is a wrapper for Debian Developers, to allow running pbuilder just like "debuild", as a normal user.