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Good to see schroot is being replaced in sbuild, given that it's nearly 20 years old and no longer a cutting-edge solution to the problem of creating build envi
by rleigh 2y ago
Good to see schroot is being replaced in sbuild, given that it's nearly 20 years old and no longer a cutting-edge solution to the problem of creating build environments. Can't believe time flies that fast since I wrote it in 2005!
Has an outright replacement for sbuild itself been considered? Given the ubiquity of modern CI systems, it seems quite possible to replace it entirely. I would have thought GitLab runners or Jenkins or any other standard CI system would work well. While I once enjoyed writing Perl, sbuild is not a great piece of code, and the problems it was trying to solve now have better and more widely-used solutions which don't require ongoing maintenance of an even older piece of Perl code.