Control: severity -1 normal On 12/19/2016 10:58 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > > On 2016-11-12 20:32 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2016-09-04 19:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> Control: tags -1 + patch >>> >>> The attached patch should fix the problem with arch-qualifiers in >>> debootstrap, tested with >>> "debootstrap --variant=minbase --include=autoconf-dickey" which fails >>> right now in unstable but succeeds with the patch (autoconf-dickey >>> depends on perl:any). >> >> It should be noted that dpkg-dev in unstable now also depends on >> perl:any. This does not cause problems yet, but only because >> libdpkg-perl depends on perl and debootstrap silently ignores any >> dependencies it cannot resolve, which is a bug in itself. >> >> This bug is a ticking time bomb, would be nice to apply my patch before >> it explodes. > > The latest dpkg upload (1.18.17) changed the dependency of libdpkg-perl > to perl:any as well, and now "debootstrap --variant=buildd" fails > because it no longer downloads perl. > I think that needs to be reverted in dpkg, we really want to be able to create sid chroots with stable debootstrap.
Cheers, Julien
