[Debconf-devel] Bug#983425: add support for DPKG_ROOT

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2021-08-24 14:58:55)
> > for your convenience, I created a merge request on salsa, fixing #989567 as
> > well as #983425.
> > 
> > https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/8
> > 
> > Both changes are necessary to support DPKG_ROOT. We verify that chroots created
> > with DPKG_ROOT and these changes are bit-by-bit identical to chroots created
> > the normal way in this salsaci job:
> > 
> > https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/dpkg-root-demo/-/jobs
> > 
> > Please consider applying these changes to debconf.
> 
> there have been no maintainer replies to this bug and it has been two months
> since Colin's last reply to
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/8 -- if you don't
> have time, I would like to offer to NMU debconf with the change proposed in
> that merge request. What do you think?

No, thanks.  I had to fix a number of things on top of your MR; I'm
doing some more testing and expect to upload today.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]