Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.102 Severity: serious Justification: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2018/06/msg00238.html
See the conversation around/following [1] for more context. [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2018/06/msg00175.html The TLDR is that the previous version of debootstrap allowed stretch to be used with --merged-usr but the new implementation which turns on merged-usr by default and blacklists anything stretch or older makes it silently discard the explicit request from the user (without either an error or warning that the flag is being ignored). As noted by Ansgar in [2], debootstrap should instead default to non-merged-usr for stretch and older, but it should be possible to enable merged-usr via the command-line parameter (as debuerreotype now always includes explicitly as of the 0.7 upload). [2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2018/06/msg00176.html There is a pending merge request implementing this behavior at [3], and I think the only points in question are whether defaulting the variable to the empty string (and adjusting that empty default based on suite later where we actually know it) is the desired approach and what to do with EXTRACT_DEB_TAR_OPTIONS / adding "-k" (from bug 838388). [3]: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/merge_requests/12 Cheers! ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
