Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.231.1

A friend pointed me at <https://pbuilder-team.pages.debian.net/pbuilder/#idm893>, which says:

There was once dbuild, which was a shell script to build Debian

packages from source. Lars Wirzenius wrote that script, and it was
good, short, and simple (probably). There was nothing like build-
depends then (I think), and it was simple. It might have been improved;
I could only find references and no actual source

I confirm this. I wrote a simple shell script that I called dbuild that
built binary packages from source packages, in about 1997 or 1998. It
was very, very simple and very, very stupid. It did not try to resolve
build dependencies. Instead, I gave it a list of source packages to
build, and the order in which to build them, and it'd unpack the
source, and run "fakeroot debian/rules build" (or something like that,
I forget the details).

I wrote it because work had bought a new server that was using a new architecture (Alpha?) that Debian only barely supported. I wrote dbuild
to try to get more software onto the machine as soon as possible.

I don't have a copy of the script any more. Given the time frame when
this happened, it's likely I never committed it to a version control
system. I probably decided it wasn't worth saving, because other people
wrote better tools soon after.

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