Hi,

First of all, thanks a lot for maintaining schroot and the rest of
the automatic build infrastructure!

A couple of months ago, aufs stopped working in the 4.x kernel for
a while.  It was fixed afterwards, but in the meantime I threw
together this simple thing that adds support for overlay mounts
(not quite the same as the existing overlayfs support).
One of the drawbacks is that overlay mounts need an additional directory
as scratch space, so there's a whole new directory/property/method
added to various classes and configuration objects, and there's
a little pain in transitioning from an aufs chroot to an overlay one,
since this directory needs to be created first.

Just let me know if you're interested in this, and I can see what
it will take to port the patch to schroot-1.7.3, and also document
the new additions properly.  If not, and/or if aufs works in a stable
manner now and it can be used again, well, yeah, feel free to close
this bug report, I'm just putting this out there as a proof of concept
or something :)

G'luck,
Peter

Hi Peter,

I don't understand everything, during last Debconf I uploaded 1.6.10-2
with this change:

  * Add support for overlay filesystem in Linux 4.0. Closes: #785633
    Thanks to Antonio Teirceiro and Felipe Sateler for the patch.

It's probably missing in the experimental version but you're speaking
of "porting" the patch to 1.7.3... do you mean porting your own patch
from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3 (is that released upstream?). Or porting Antonio's
patch to 1.7.x?

Cheers,

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
wmanager, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 808387@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> (supplier of updated wmanager package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:23:54 +0200
Source: wmanager
Binary: wmanager
Architecture: source
Version: 0.2.1-13
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Changed-By: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Closes: 808387
Description:
 wmanager   - window-manager selection tool used at X startup
Changes:
 wmanager (0.2.1-13) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Bump the debhelper compatibility level to 9:
     - use debhelper's invocation of dpkg-buildflags, drop the versioned
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     - use dpkg-buildflags's hardening flags, drop the build dependency
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   * Add the 05-strdup patch, replacing two unguarded uses of strcpy()
     with strdup().  Arguably the strcpy() uses were safe enough, but
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   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6:
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   * Split the DEP-3 author information into several Author fields for
     the patches with multiple authors.
   * Update the copyright file to the 1.0 format and bump the years of
     my Debian packaging copyright notice.
   * Rewrite wmanagerrc-update in pure Perl, replace the perl5 and chase
     dependencies with perl:Depends.  Incidentally, Closes: #808387
   * Drop the version from the 'menu' suggestion, satisfied in oldstable.
   * Add the debian/upstream/metadata file.
   * Add Multi-Arch: foreign to the binary package.
   * Drop the source compression options; dpkg-dev's defaults are good enough.
   * Add --parallel to the debhelper invocation.
   * Switch the Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser URLs to my GitLab repository.
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