We had a discussion on irc. The upshot is that we are going to move the autopkgtest-virt-schroot backend into a new source package, provisionally called autopkgtest-virt-extra. I will be preparing that package.
The principal motivation is social: Simon McVittie, one of the principal current contributors to src:autopkgtest maintainers, feels it is a maintenance burden. At a techical level, there is a difficulty with the VirtSubproc.py module. The -virt-* implementations all use this module, which has important shared functionality. It does not have an advertised stable API and is shippwed under /usr/share/autopkgtest/. Simon has asked me to *copy* this file rather than referencing it. I will think about ways to automatically detect or handle it getting out of date. I hope to prepare the new package in the next week or two. We will need to ask for expedited NEW review, because (at least IMO) we don't want the new autopkgtest to migrate to testing until the removed parts are available in the new package. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
