Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:47:42 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 20:33:22 +0100, RhineDevil wrote: > > I ask the teams responsible for sbuild and debootstrap development > > permission to integrate these changes > > If you have made changes to sbuild and debootstrap and you want those > changes to be merged, the way to make that happen is to open bug reports > or merge requests with the specific patches/commits that you want applied, > so that their maintainers can review those changes and either merge them > as-is, merge them with changes, or ask you for improvements. > > > A viable solution for achieving this may be using an optional > > -f/--flavour parameter in sbuild/debootstrap components who do not > > interact with repos > > If I saw "flavour" in debootstrap help, I'd expect it to be something > similar to --variant or maybe --merged-usr - choosing between different > forms for a chroot in a way that is "less important" than the suite. > > If you mean the difference between Debian, Devuan, Ubuntu, Tanglu and > similar OS distributions, dpkg refers to them as *vendors* (as in the > dpkg-vendor tool) and I think that might be the best term to use to refer > to them. That's the term I use in <https://salsa.debian.org/smcv/vectis>, > for example. > > That rename would also avoid having to choose whether to use the en_GB > or en_US spelling of flavour/flavor :-) > > The other obvious name would be "distribution", but that's awkward for > historical reasons, because Debian sometimes uses "distribution" to mean > what we now call a suite or codename, like stable or buster (for example > the dists directory in apt archives refers to this meaning). > > smcv Sounds a nice idea in theory but the -v command as shown in https://manpages.debian.org/buster/sbuild/sbuild.1.en.html is already occupied by "version"... Flavor means exactly what you guessed though. If you have other ideas about terms I could use please write them
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