Comment 6 for bug 940410

I'm sorry you consider it wrong and disrespectful, but my sbuild has been broken since February. I reported it then. Almost two months ago, I also reported it (on the bug you filed!) to Debian, cautioning them not to accept your patch until the regression was fixed. There was no response.

As lintian is very useful to correct Debian/Ubuntu packaging and I only use sbuild, I consider this a high importance bug because it can lead to packaging bugs in other software. Optional functionality shouldn't break existing functionality.