Hi,

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at  1:02:18 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:32:34PM +0000, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > I tested your patch when debootstrapping from squeeze, it did work.  
> > > Should
> > > I test some more scenarios (cdebootstrap?  2-phase cross-arch debootstrap?
> > > some other distro?) -- or do you think it should be safe?
> > 
> > Cool, thanks!! If testing is trivial for you then I'm sure this would be
> > appreciated (in particular the "it did not work before, but not it works"
> > improvement). While I wouldn't really expect any new problems, I don't know
> > enough about, e.g., cdebootstrap so maybe something could go wrong over 
> > there?
> 
> I just tested:          no patch    your patch
> squeeze debootstrap     ✕           ✓
> wheezy debootstrap      ✕           ✓
> unstable debootstrap    ✓           ✓     hacked in #766459
> squeeze cdebootstrap    ✕           ✕
> wheezy cdebootstrap     ✕           ✕
> unstable cdebootstrap   ✓           ✓
> 
> squeeze cdebootstrap dies after extraction, before unpacking:
> E: Execution failed: No such file or directory
> 
> wheezy cdebootstrap dies immediately:
> P: Retrieving InRelease
> P: Validating InRelease
> I: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (7.0/wheezy) 
> <ftpmas...@debian.org>"
> (or on my partial mirror: W: Couldn't validate InRelease!)
> P: Parsing InRelease
> W: parser_rfc822: Iek! Don't find end of field, it seems to be after the end 
> of the line!
> E: Couldn't parse InRelease!
> 
> So cdebootstrap failures are unrelated to this bug.
> 

Many thanks for doing this extensive testing!

But it really seems to be out of our hands for now, and so I'm going to shut up
on this one unless prompted for input.

Best,
Michael

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