Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal apt is currently at Priority: important, but debootstrap treats it like Priority: required by including it in every variant explicitly:
+--- | if doing_variant - || doing_variant fakechroot; then | #required="$required $(get_debs Priority: important)" | # ^^ should be getting debconf here somehow maybe | base="$(get_debs Priority: important)" | elif doing_variant buildd || doing_variant scratchbox; then | base="apt build-essential" | elif doing_variant minbase; then | base="apt" | fi +---[ file:///usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/sid ] If apt was Priority: required, debootstrap wouldn't need to pretend it was. It also seems more honest ;) Ansgar