Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.93 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? 1) upgraded debootstrap to latest version 1.0.93 2) run command debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg lucid out/ubuntu-10.04 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu * What was the outcome of this action? this command failed with status $? = 2 and log ands with: ... I: Retrieving zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1 I: Validating zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1 I: Chosen extractor for .deb packages: dpkg-deb I: Extracting adduser... I: Extracting base-files... I: Extracting base-passwd... I: Extracting bash... I: Extracting bsdutils... I: Extracting busybox-initramfs... I: Extracting coreutils... I: Extracting cpio... I: Extracting dash... # cat out/ubuntu-10.04/debootstrap/debootstrap.log tar: ./bin/sh: Cannot create symlink to 'dash': File exists tar: ./usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz: Cannot create symlink to 'dash.1.gz': File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors # -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.21.1-openvz-042stab123.9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.19.2-1 Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.6 ii gnupg 2.1.18-8~deb9u1 debootstrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information