Re: [Tails-dev] Heads up: update your build environment

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Hi,

intrigeri wrote (11 May 2014 19:45:19 GMT) :
> tl;dr:


>   * If you are maintaining your Tails build VM manually, please
>     upgrade your Tails build VM to Wheezy, and install our custom
>     live-build package as documented on
>     https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/#manual


I'm curious what's the status on this one. Can we start assuming
everyone is now building on Wheezy?

>   * Else, if you're using Vagrant, or care about it, please upgrade
>     our Vagrant basebox (#7218). I *might* do it myself in a few weeks
>     or months, as a way to make it easy to contribute to Tails with
>     code, but you should absolutely *not* rely on it. Volunteers?


>     Note that even if nobody wants to upgrade the basebox to Wheezy,
>     given Squeeze's LTS support will likely be done in a different
>     archive than the usual Debian one, the basebox will definitely
>     need to be updated when Squeeze reaches EOL, that is in a few
>     weeks. So, perhaps rebuilding it on Wheezy is not that much more
>     work (yeah, I know, last time we had to update the basebox, I went
>     with the easy way of updating it in-place, which might not be an
>     option for the Wheezy upgrade; but maybe it is :)


Anyone interested?

Cheers,
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intrigeri
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