[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#279408: Split wishlist item from existing bug

[Roger Leigh]

clone 279408 -1
reassign -1 schroot
retitle -1 schroot: Please provide a means to set the default message verbosity
severity -1 wishlist
close 279408
thanks

Hi,

This bug relates to the broken design of the original dchroot, which
has been preserved in schroot in its dchroot compatibility wrapper,
which superseded the version this bug report was originally filed
against.

The bug can't be fixed for compatibility reasons, but the solution is
to use schroot.  The command-line option syntax of schroot was
designed specifically to correct this mistake.  Nowadays, there is no
reason to use dchroot instead of schroot, and the dchroot wrapper can
use the schroot configuration if you have scripts relying on the
dchroot behaviour.

As a result of a solution being present, namely upgrading to schroot,
and the dchroot behaviour not being fixable, and being documented
specifically that it behaves in this manner, I am closing the bug.

Timo did have a request at the end of the bug report about the default
message verbosity.  While this hasn't yet changed, I have cloned a new
bug to track this.  Hopefully, we will implement a "messages" key in
schroot.conf which can be set to values such as
quiet/default/normal/verbose which will be used unless overridden on
the command-line.  Does this sound OK?


Regards,
Roger

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