[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#606415: Bug#606415: schroot.conf examples are back from the future

[Ivan Kohler]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:59:09AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:23:27PM -0800, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> > Package: schroot
> > Version: 1.4.16-1
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > schroot.conf says squeeze is stable and lenny is oldstable (because it targets
> > the squeeze release).
> > 
> > >From the current frame of references, however, squeeze is testing and lenny is
> > stable.
> > 
> > This does seem somewhat of a chicken-and-egg situation for any package which
> > hardcodes examples about which distributions are currently stable.
> 
> Yes.  The configuration file is merely giving examples of how one might
> configure schroot.  The actual names in there are not important--they
> are only intended to be illustrative.
> 
> I have generally attempted to keep these examples up-to-date.  As you
> correctly noted, the current examples are intended for the squeeze
> release (and I'll update them for wheezy once squeeze is released).
> 
> Regarding this bug report, I'm not clear on what, if anything, you are
> proposing should be changed, or if there is any any other action which
> you would like to be taken.  I.e. I'm unsure if there's anything I can
> actually do to resolve it.

Well, I'm sure there are other things to do right now (hence, minor, and 
could be downgraded to wishlist).

The changes that I came up with at first thought seemed more trouble 
than they were worth, to me (swapping out example configs based on 
something that indicates the release happened)... but perhaps in time a 
good solution could be found.

-- 
_ivan