Hello all, Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (2017-05-24 08:42:37) > Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> writes: > > Doing it in a script is one more step. The point of this endavour is to > > make the setup as simple as possible. > > I think creating a chroot in postinst is not good. Mostly because > maintainer scripts should never fail, but this is too likely to fail > (for example when there are network connection issues). > > Maintainer scripts must also *never* write to user home > directories. Besides security issues this will also make maintainer > scripts just fail. > > Just providing a script in the existing sbuild package to more easily > setup a chroot with a standard configuration seems to be the better > option to me.
I agree with ansgar on all accounts. cheers, josch
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