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

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