[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#597778: schroot: Stupid name restrictions is breaking existing setups for no good reason.

[Len Sorensen]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.4.12-1
Severity: grave

I just upgraded schroot to the current version in testing, and now I
can't use it anymore because someone got the bright (not) idea that only
alphanumeric, dashes and underscores should be allowed in chroot names.
It was annoying enough when a while ago the config files started having
that (undocumented unless you read the source code and without useful
error message) restriction.

Put it back to sanity please.

If I want to name a chroot rr2.1.0 because that's what is in it, then
that's my choice.

While you are at it, let me choose the names of my config files too.

Breaking existing users is NOT acceptable so stop doing that.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-filesystem1.42.0     1.42.0-4   filesystem operations (portable pa
ii  libboost-program-options1.42. 1.42.0-4   program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.42.0          1.42.0-4   regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-system1.42.0         1.42.0-4   Operating system (e.g. diagnostics
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-8  GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1                   1.0.3-1.4  Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-6    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-8    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii  schroot-common                1.4.12-1   common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages schroot suggests:
pn  aufs-modules | unionfs-module <none>     (no description available)
pn  btrfs-tools                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
pn  lvm2                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  unzip                         6.0-4      De-archiver for .zip files

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