[Bug 1859010] Re: MAILPROG binary '/usr/sbin/sendmail' does not exist or is not executable

[Brian Murray]

I've been unable to recreate this on a Focal machine which I just
installed sbuild on.

bdmurray at clean-focal-amd64:~$ sbuild --version
sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.78.1 (09 February 2019)

Written by Roman Hodek, James Troup, Ben Collins, Ryan Murray, Rick
Younie, Francesco Paolo Lovergine, Michael Banck, Roger Leigh and
Andres Mejia.
...
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
bdmurray at clean-focal-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy sbuild
sbuild:
  Installed: 0.78.1-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.78.1-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.78.1-2ubuntu1 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bdmurray at clean-focal-amd64:~$ ls -lh /usr/sbin/sendmail
ls: cannot access '/usr/sbin/sendmail': No such file or directory

Can you give us any more details about your configuration?

** Changed in: sbuild (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  MAILPROG binary '/usr/sbin/sendmail' does not exist or is not
  executable

Status in sbuild package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in sbuild source package in Focal:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  [Release info]
  sb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)
  Release:	20.04
  Codename:	focal

  [Issue/BUG?]
  While build anything in a schroot, sbuild fails because sendmail is not installed

  [Scenario]
  I'm having this issue in Focal when trying to build anything in a schroot env. 
  Even if I try to see sbuild version the error happens:

  sbuild --version
  Error reading configuration: MAILPROG binary '/usr/sbin/sendmail' does not exist or is not executable at /usr/share/perl5/Sbuild/ConfBase.pm line 59.

  Here is while trying to build pkg:

  sbuild command is: /usr/bin/sbuild --chroot-setup-commands /tmp/umt-gcedvijf --no-apt-update --no-apt-upgrade --no-apt-distupgrade -d precise-esm-amd64 -A --build-dep-resolver=aptitude php5_5.3.10-1ubuntu3.41.dsc
  Error reading configuration: MAILPROG binary '/usr/sbin/sendmail' does not exist or is not executable at /usr/share/perl5/Sbuild/ConfBase.pm line 59.

  [Fix/Workround]
  Problem can be fixed/workrounded installing sendmail in the host machine, but it's weirdo that sbuild needs sendmail, and if so, why?

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