#606415 schroot.conf examples are back from the future

Package:
schroot
Source:
schroot
Description:
Execute commands in a chroot environment
Submitter:
Ivan Kohler
Date:
2014-11-24 13:57:04 UTC
Severity:
minor
#606415#5
Date:
2010-12-08 23:23:27 UTC
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schroot.conf says squeeze is stable and lenny is oldstable (because it targets
the squeeze release).
stable.

This does seem somewhat of a chicken-and-egg situation for any package which
hardcodes examples about which distributions are currently stable.
#606415#10
Date:
2010-12-12 11:59:09 UTC
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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.


Regards,
Roger
#606415#15
Date:
2010-12-13 22:35:54 UTC
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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.
#606415#20
Date:
2012-01-22 17:36:15 UTC
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I'm afraid I'll have to close this bug.  It's not ideal, but we do
out of necessity need to target the release at the next (rather
than current) stable release, and this inevitably leads to the
sample configurations being ahead at some points in the release
cycle.  There's not much we can do about this--we'll also get
complaints that it's out of date if it goes into a stable release
with the oldstable names.


Regards,
Roger
#606415#31
Date:
2014-04-24 07:49:14 UTC
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So, in the fullness of (not even all that much) time...

It looks like the distro-info-data package now provides up-to-date
information that could be used to generate the config file with correct
release names (both before and after release).

Not that it is of particular severity (hence, minor, and perhaps should
be wishlist), but with the metainfo/chicken-and-egg problems solved in a
distribution-wide rather than schroot-specific fashion, perhaps we could
now keep this bug open?  It might pique someone's interest enough to
submit a good patch.  :)

Thanks.
#606415#36
Date:
2014-11-24 13:47:08 UTC
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I can certainly take a look when I have some spare time.  However, schroot
isn't Debian-specific so it's not something I'd like to have a hard
dependency upon.


Regards,
Roger