Hi Ian, On 2025-01-30 19.40, Ian Jackson wrote: > 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 went through the whole IRC conversation. I am happy that a good compromise was eventually found. > 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 out of date. What we want as autopkgtest maintainers is to be free to modify VirtSubproc.py without coordination. > 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. I'm quite curious to see how to fix for #1052119 works in practice, but I don't think we are especially in a hurry for an upload right now. Cheers, Paride
