Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 cowbuilder
Control: retitle -2 cowbuilder: please make / a mountpoint
Control: severity -2 wishlist
Control: affects -2 src:util-linux
Hi pbuilder Team,
it appears / is not a mountpoint in a cowbuilder environment, as
Mark (see below) has submitted test failures in util-linux in such
an environment.
Now util-linux assumes that / is a mountpoint on any Linux or BSD it
builds on; this strikes me as a reasonable assumption ("what else
could it be?"). I'm not saying the util-linux test suite should not
make such assumptions, but generally it would be great if the Debian
tools for building packages behaved in more consistently.
Therefore: please make / a real mountpoint in cowbuilder
environments to avoid surprises.
* Mark Hindley <[email protected]> [200505 13:27]:
[..]
> Unfortunately the testsuite fails when building in a pbuilder/cowbuilder
> chroot. In particular misc/fallocate and misc/mountpoint.
[..]
> misc/mountpoint: This assumes / is a mountpoint which is not the case in a
> chroot.
Many thanks,
Chris
