Hi! On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 22:15:44 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > There is one thing which I really dislike about the proposed change, which > is the fact that you are trying to support *broken* Debian systems (namely, > those having /etc/passwd with different UID than the target system). No, I > don't think we should support broken systems. Broken systems should be fixed > first before doing any development with them.
That was not really the intention or purpose of that part of the patch though, which I think was mentioned on the initial filing. Currently bootstrapping is supported to be performed from non-Debian systems, so there there's no possible guarantee that the uid/gid and their names will match what's used on Debian. For example debootstrap has support to bootstrap even w/o dpkg-deb or dpkg being present. (I'm not asking for this to be introduced right now, having what has been uploaded is pretty good already! :) Although it would still be nice to have. Just wanted to mainly clarify what seemed like a misconception.) Thanks, Guillem
