Martin Pitt writes ("Re: Bug#898727: Please provide adt-virt-* names, at least for buster"): > Control: tag -1 moreinfo ... > Do you have examples of such "expectations"? These were deprecated > two years ago (with warning messages) and removed one year ago, with > a NEWS and blogs and emails and all that. I haven't seen any bug > reports or otherwise from any user that asked for bringing them > back; this is the first one. Why now? Introducing these > long-obsolete aliases again after they already got dropped in a > stable release seems just unnecessary effort to me.
They were not dropped in a stable release. They are present in autopkgtest 4.4 in stretch, and AFAICT they generate no deprecation warnings. zealot:~> adt-virt-schroot build ok quit zealot:~> So I think a sensible transition would keep them (with the deprecation warnings) in buster. The cost of doing so is very low. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.