[Buildd-tools-devel] schroot >< dchroot

[Roger Leigh]

Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org> writes:

> Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I recently took over dchroot without knowing about schroot. It seems
>> schroot has everything dchroot has and much more. Don't you think it
>> would be best to drop dchroot in favor of schroot? If so, maybe it would
>> be a good idea for you to ship a transitional dchroot package in schroot?
>
> We already do :)
>
> $ dpkg -s schroot | grep dchroot
> Replaces: dchroot
> Provides: dchroot
> Conflicts: dchroot
>  schroot shares most of its options with dchroot, but offers vastly
>  more functionality.  A dchroot compatibility wrapper is also
>  provided, offering the same functionality as the dchroot package.

I forgot to mention in my previous mail that if you did decide to drop
dchroot, we could split out this dchroot wrapper into a separate
dchroot package (with an appropriate version number bump).


Regards,
Roger

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