On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 01:01:23PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > does anybody plan to use sbuild in Stretch with Debian Squeeze or older
> > chroots?
>
> Yes.
I'm actually not doing Debian packaging for it, but at work there still
are embedded machines running Lenny, where upgrading is simply not
possible without buying new hardware (not only a new motherboard and
CPU, but also I/O cards and so on).
> > I would like to remove some code from sbuild which is only useful
> > for chroots with very old apt inside (specifically apt without
> > support for [trusted=yes] in the sources.list). Maintaining this
> > piece of code takes lots of time and testing otherwise, which I
> > would avoid if it doesn't have users anymore.
>
> How annoying.
It's always annoying when old functionality is removed when there are
still users. I can understand that the sbuild maintainers don't want to
spend lot of time on it when there are only a few users. Is it possible
to keep the code in sbuild, but just declare it obsolete and untested?
As long as it keeps working it will keep its users happy.
--
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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