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
