On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 07:24:51PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > does anybody plan to use sbuild in Stretch with Debian Squeeze or older > chroots? > > 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. > > If you still want to be able to use Squeeze chroots for some reason, please > shout!
I would just go ahead and remove the support for squeeze chroots. It's oldoldstable what we are talking about. In the case of sbuild, it is a lot more interesting the ability to build packages for testing and unstable from stable, which we already enjoy thanks to backports, than this weird backwards compatibility you mention now. Thanks.
