Bug#679645: devscripts: debuild does not properly forward coloured output

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.11.9
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

tools that usually produce output with colours do not do so when run by
debuild. Examples are the cmake build system (noticeably, colours work fine
when using dpkg-buildpackage) and linitan with the --color option.
As colours are very useful to quicker see what's going on, it's desirable for
debuild not to loose that information.

Kind regards,
Ralf




/etc/devscripts.conf

~/.devscripts
DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-us -uc -tc -j2"
DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="--info --display-info"

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.4.3
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii perl 5.14.2-12
ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii python2.7 2.7.3~rc2-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii at 3.1.13-2
ii curl 7.26.0-1
ii dctrl-tools 2.22.2
ii debian-keyring 2012.06.01
ii dput 0.9.6.3
ii equivs 2.0.9
ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2
ii gnupg 1.4.12-4+b1
ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.58-1
ii libdistro-info-perl 0.10
ii libjson-perl 2.53-1
ii libparse-debcontrol-perl 2.005-3
ii libsoap-lite-perl 0.714-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii libwww-perl 6.04-1
ii lintian 2.5.8
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii patch 2.6.1-3
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii python-debian 0.1.21
ii python-magic 5.11-1
ii sensible-utils 0.0.7
ii strace 4.5.20-2.3
ii unzip 6.0-6
ii wdiff 1.1.2-1
ii wget 1.13.4-3
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii build-essential 11.5
pn cvs-buildpackage <none>
pn devscripts-el <none>
pn gnuplot <none>
ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.5-2
pn libauthen-sasl-perl <none>
ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.04-3
pn libnet-smtp-ssl-perl <none>
pn libterm-size-perl <none>
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.20-1
pn mutt <none>
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.0p1-2
pn svn-buildpackage <none>
ii w3m 0.5.3-8




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