[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#859867: Bug#859867: Bug#859867: Bug#859867: Please add a package which automatically configures sbuild for Debian packaging

[Michael Stapelberg]

Thanks for the feedback. Any suggestions as to how the script should be
called, and which options it should have, if any?

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (2017-05-24 08:42:37)
> > Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org> writes:
> > > Doing it in a script is one more step. The point of this endavour is to
> > > make the setup as simple as possible.
> >
> > I think creating a chroot in postinst is not good.  Mostly because
> > maintainer scripts should never fail, but this is too likely to fail
> > (for example when there are network connection issues).
> >
> > Maintainer scripts must also *never* write to user home
> > directories. Besides security issues this will also make maintainer
> > scripts just fail.
> >
> > Just providing a script in the existing sbuild package to more easily
> > setup a chroot with a standard configuration seems to be the better
> > option to me.
>
> I agree with ansgar on all accounts.
>
> cheers, josch
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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