[buildd-tools-devel] schroot version 1.3.0 released, testers wanted!

[Roger Leigh]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 01:18:19AM -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote:
> Jonathan Callen wrote:
> > Roger Leigh wrote:
> >> I have released schroot version 1.3.0, which will shortly be uploaded
> >> to Debian experimental.  This will undergo further testing and gain
> >> a few more features and fixes (see the TODO file) before it enters
> >> Debian unstable as a 1.4.x stable series targeted at squeeze.
> >>
> >> If you are an schroot user, or use schroot with sbuild, I'd really
> >> appreciate you giving this a go.  It's been in regular use by
> >> developers for several months, and is regarded as being stable and
> >> safe for general use.  Once we are happy there are no regressions
> >> from the current 1.2.x stable series, we will consider moving it to
> >> unstable.  While there are not currently any known problems with the
> >> code, it has undergone a number of large changes, and given the
> >> number of different ways in which people are using schroot, it's not
> >> possible to test every use case out there.  The most likely issues
> >> are not being fully backward compatible with the configuration file
> >> format used in earlier versions (we aim to be fully compatible with
> >> all 1.2.x versions), which should be reported as bugs.
> > 
> > Hi, I'm the maintainer of schroot in Gentoo, and as I was testing this
> > version, I noticed that it FTBFS when --disable-lvm-snapshot is passed
> > to configure.  Attached is a quick patch that appears to fix this issue.
> > 
> > 
> 
> It would help if I finished testing my patches first.... Attached is a
> new patch that is actually tested to work; unfortunately, it changes a
> public api (#ifdef in a public header), and I'm not sure how to properly
> handle that.

That's fine--it's not a stable release yet, so updating the header
is fine.

Many thanks for the fix, and apologies for the delay in replying
and applying this.  It's now committed onto the master branch, and
I'll make a new release soon with this included.


Regards,
Roger

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