[Bug 1440851] Re: `--foreign` flag broken

[Derek Chen-Becker]

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.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #709864
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709864

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Title:
  `--foreign` flag broken

Status in sbuild package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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