[buildd-tools-devel] sbuild/schroot session at debconf?

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2015, 16:08 +0100 schrieb rleigh at codelibre.net:
> > I guess Roger is not going to be around to give us all some knowledge
> > transfer? (e.g I find myself often wondering if something was done a
> > particular way due to hard thought about security models or
> > overarching design, or if it was random/unimportant, because I am
> > completely ignorant of project history prior to about 2 yrs ago). It
> > feels like software that has actually been designed, rather than just
> > flung together, so I worry that I am making ignorant decisions that
> > will spoilt that design over time...
> 
> [...]
> A longer-term discussion you might want to have at debconf is the
> direction you want to take these tools in.  When I originally wrote
> schroot, it was designed with the needs of sbuild in mind as the initial
> main focus, and we made it portable across all the platforms Debian
> supports.  But even with schroot, we retained the old codepaths in sbuild
> to support sudo, so schroot support could be dropped, or it could be
> replaced with another tool entirely--the sbuild interfaces would allow
> another system to be dropped in with the addition of a single class to add
> support.  When I wrote schroot, there weren't any alternatives with its
> featureset, but now there are several, and if you think there would be
> advantages to switching/supporting additional chroot modes then it's
> certainly feasible.

I'll be at Debconf and would love to join a sbuild/schroot session.

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