git-pbuilder 1.16

Getting the git-pbuilder script included in git-buildpackage has significantly increased the usage, which means lots more people finding new features and facilities that they need. I love that part of free software work. Here's a new version with a few new facilities.

Since the previous release announcement (for 1.13), this adds:

• New support for an ARCH environment variable, which sets the architecture to use for the build chroot. This appends the architecture to the base directory name and passes the --architecture flag on to cowbuilder and pbuilder.

• When called with update, create, or login, pass any additional arguments to cowbuilder. Patch from Svend Sorensen.

• Say what distribution and architecture we're building for if DIST or ARCH is set. Error out if /usr/sbin/cowbuilder isn't available, telling the user to install the cowbuilder package. Based on patches from Guido Günther.

You can get the latest version from my scripts distribution page.