Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the multistrap package.
The package description is: A debootstrap replacement with multiple repository support, using apt to handle all dependency issues and conflicts. . Multistrap includes support for native and foreign architecture bootstrap environments. Foreign bootstraps only need minimal configuration on the final device. Also supports cleaning up the generated bootstrap filesystem to remove downloaded packages and hooks to modify the files in the bootstrap filesystem after the packages have been unpacked but before being configured. . Unlike debootstrap, multistrap relies on working versions of dpkg and apt outside the final filesystem. If dpkg supports MultiArch, foreign architecture libraries can be installed, where available. I took over multistrap maintainership in 2016 because it provides many advantages over debootstrap because it uses apt as a backend. This in turn allows multiple repositories, resolution of complex dependencies and installing foreign architecture packages. Unfortunately I was never very happy with the codebase which led me to a big 1500-line-diff rewrite of the codebase: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/multistrap/commit/ff96767b2f6a574e2651768225ad61557880e12f Followed by a 1842-line-diff commit which even more restructured the codebase: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/multistrap/commit/cd5dfbbbf2435bae8fc34ac32ee7d716c24bada8 But I still wasn't happy and realized that to make myself happy, I would have to change behaviour of multistrap that would make its interface incompatible with earlier versions. In the end, I ended up with a complete rewrite and out came my package mmdebstrap: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mmdebstrap Similar to multistrap it uses apt at its core but in contrast to multistrap it doesn't offer a configuration file system. Unfortunately I'm very happy with mmdebstrap and thus I now decided to not spend more time into multistrap. I did a last upload that fixes a FTBFS issue and its last outstanding RC bug but after that it's now orphaned.
