Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> writes: > mat bentley <mathewkbent...@gmail.com> (2016-01-24): >> This commit at >> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debootstrap.git/diff/functions?id=5518b79792dd93a416464c0744b87eb1a32ff770 >> >> appears to 100% of the time invoke setup_devices_simple function; which >> means pre-existing paths can never execute. at worst this led to an issue >> w/ crouton an installer for ubuntu chroots tailored for chrome os: >> https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/2387 >> >> and at best - it yields dead code; a sign of sloppy development. if it >> cannot execute it should be removed. > > Maybe that was done on purpose so as not to lose the code entirely, and > so as to be able to quickly add whatever detection people might need to > get the old behaviour once they have explained their use case through a > bug report against debootstrap in the Debian bug tracking system?
BTW here's where the patch came from: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571136#65 Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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