[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#599518: schroot: feature request: ssh-like -X option

[David Laban]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.4.12-1
Severity: wishlist


http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566 provides a wrapper script
for launching schroot with X enabled. It would be good if schroot supported
this natively via a command line flag, rather than requiring the user to
google for the answer and potentially come up with an insecure solution.

Does the approach given in the article look like the right one?

David.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-filesystem1.42.0     1.42.0-4   filesystem operations (portable pa
ii  libboost-program-options1.42. 1.42.0-4   program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.42.0          1.42.0-4   regular expression library for C++
ii  libboost-system1.42.0         1.42.0-4   Operating system (e.g. diagnostics
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-8  GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1                   1.0.3-1.4  Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-6    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-8    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.2 Universally Unique ID library
ii  schroot-common                1.4.12-1   common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages schroot suggests:
pn  aufs-modules | unionfs-module <none>     (no description available)
pn  btrfs-tools                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lvm2                          2.02.66-3  The Linux Logical Volume Manager
ii  unzip                         6.0-4      De-archiver for .zip files

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/schroot/schroot.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information