Hi Am 29.07.2018 um 12:57 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > In September 2018, I will request that vmdebootstrap be removed from > Debian. Please switch to a better tool now. From the NEWS file: > > vmdebootstrap is not going to be included in the release of Debian > buster. Please switch to another tool for building Debian system > images automatically, such as vmdb2, debos, or FAI. You have until > September, 2018.
I notice that the autopkgtest man pages still reference vmdebootstrap, specifically autopkgtest-virt-qemu.1: > BUILDING IMAGES > Debian > For Debian you can use vmdebootstrap(8) to build a suitable image. E. > g. for unstable: > > vmdebootstrap --verbose --serial-console --distribution=sid \ > > --customize=/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed \ > --user=test/test --size=10000000000 --grub > --image=autopkgtest-sid.raw > qemu-img convert -O qcow2 autopkgtest-sid.raw > autopkgtest-sid.img > rm autopkgtest-sid.raw Could those man pages be updated to list the commands for a/the recommended replacement/successor of vmdebootstrap? Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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