Only give the --check-option if dpkg-buildpackage supports it

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/icklib/cleanly b/icklib/cleanly
index 309bccf..9f3e3dc 100755
--- a/icklib/cleanly
+++ b/icklib/cleanly
@@ -311,12 +311,19 @@ class App(cliapp.Application):
                 argv_prefix + ['--update'] + common_opts,
                 stdout=None, stderr=None)
 
+            self._report('Find out of dpkg-buildpackage has --check-option')
+            output = cliapp.runcmd(['dpkg-buildpackage', '--help'])
+            has_check_optio = '---check-option' in output
+
             self._report('Build the binary packages')
             opts = [
                 '--build',
                 '--buildresult', result,
-                '--debbuildopts', '--check-option=-Xfoo,bad-distribution-in-changes-file,changed-by-address-malformed',
             ]
+            if has_check_option:
+                opts.extend([
+                    '--debbuildopts', '--check-option=-Xfoo,bad-distribution-in-changes-file,changed-by-address-malformed',
+                ]
             if self.settings['build-arch-all-also']:
                 opts += ['--debbuildopts', '-b']
             else: