Refactor tails-custom-apt-sources and tails-diff-suite duplicated code
After #8654 (closed), we’ll have two implementations of e.g.
branch_name_to_suite
in two places. The logic of “what APT suite is
used at build time for a given branch” is kinda duplicated too. Ideally,
we should a single implementation, that both programs would use. It’s
not trivial since they’re run in very different contexts. I see two main
options:
- Have
tails-diff-suites
to load and run that shared code from the Git repository it’s using to find out the base branch etc. — it’s ugly but doable, and then the question is: from which branch? - Put the shared implementation elsewhere. We could e.g. put it into our upcoming pythonlib or the existing perl5lib, but in both cases this adds a dependency to the ISO build system. Something like #7036 could help manage such build-dependencies, by the way.
Both seem a bit too heavy to integrate into the already pretty radical #8654 (closed), so I’m saving it for later.
Related issues
- Related to #7036
Original created by @intrigeri on 9171 (Redmine)