Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name>: > On Thu 23 Jan 2025 at 09:46am +01, Paul Gevers wrote: > > [...] schroot is considered deprecated in Debian. > > This is news to me. What is the closest replacement, for
It is false. I have spoken to the schroot maintainers and they do not consider schroot deprecated. There are good reasons on buildds for wanting something with stronger security isolation. That we have changed the buildds away from schroot does not necessarily have any implications for other use cases. Specifically: It does not mean that schroot is unsuitable for maintainer use. In particular, a maintainer is very likely to *run* the very thing they're building, on their main system. So they are trusting it anyway. So, in summary: schroot is not deprecated. autopkgtest-virt-schroot is not deprecated. Sean, I recommend you continue to use them as you have been used to. (FTR I consider describing someone else's software as deprecated, without consulting them, as intolerably rude and hostile.) Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
