Source: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.118
Severity: important
Back in 2017, I added an autopkgtest to debootstrap. One of the things
that it does is to run a simplified version of schroot, to make sure that
a chroot produced by debootstrap is usable by schroot - in other words,
to make sure the debootstrap RC bug #817236 does not regress.
Since commit add2cf76, the script debian/tests/fake/schroot-1.6.10-3
bind-mounts /dev/ptmx onto $chroot/dev/ptmx. While I'm sure this would be
a sensible thing to do, the entire purpose of that test script is that it
behaves like schroot 1.6.10-3, so any difference in behaviour between
schroot 1.6.10-3 and that script is a bug in that script.
I believe the current QA uploads of schroot still have the
same behaviour as 1.6.10-3. If they do not, we should add a
debian/tests/fake/schroot-1.6.10-11 with the new behaviour.
If you want a test script that behaves like schroot *should* behave, that
already exists, as debian/tests/fake/schroot-proposed, which emulates
the behaviour that I asked for in schroot bug #856877. However, until
we have a stable release in which #856877 has been fixed in schroot,
I think debootstrap should still have test coverage to make sure that
it doesn't break older schroot versions.
smcv
