[01:09] <JJJollyjim> Hi all! http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/fixing-a-bug.html says this is the place to go with questions about patching packages, but the package I'm hoping to patch is in main, not *verse -- is this still the right place?
[01:11] <teward> JJJollyjim: the process for patching remains the same, whether it's for Universe or Main
[01:11] <teward> (this channel is fairly dead though... but you can still ask)
[01:14] <teward> JJJollyjim: if you have any questions, I'll be happy to help if I can :)
[03:41] <JJJollyjim> hmm, I set up pbuilder with pbuilder-dist bionic create
[03:41] <JJJollyjim> and am now attempting pbuilder-dist bionic build xyz.dsc
[03:42] <JJJollyjim> but it errors out trying to extract /home/testuser/pbuilder/bionic-base.tgz, which is a zero byte file!
[03:42] <JJJollyjim> the create command went through with no error messages
[03:42] <JJJollyjim> any ideas?
[03:43] <JJJollyjim> (no error messages apart from "W: No local /etc/mailname to copy, relying on /var/cache/pbuilder/build/9657/etc/mailname to be correct", which sounds unimportant)
[03:59] <Logan> JJJollyjim: I would remove that file and try again. It sounds like it failed at creating the base tarball
[04:00] <JJJollyjim> Unfortunately I already did remove ~/pbuild and try again, with the same outcome