On Sun, 2022-09-18 at 12:51 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > I wrote a possible patch for debootstrap in [1], but being > > debootstrap we might need to have it in stable as well. Maybe > > someone has other ideas as well. > > > > [1]: > > https://salsa.debian.org/ansgar/debootstrap/-/commits/exclude-usrmerge > > Indeed, that test was in an already installed chroot. This is very > strange as I am sure I had tested with a local reprepro with the new > packages when testing the debootstrap changes, and I recall that it was > working as intended. Evidently I was mistaken. > > Could you please fire a MR with those commits to the deboostrap repo?
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/-/merge_requests/76 > The most important part is setting up the chroot correctly, the > additional dependencies are an annoyance but can be removed post-fact > and shouldn't break things, so maybe it's fine to update it only in > unstable for now? Sure, it might mean a few dependencies we don't want in buildd chroots for a few days, but I don't think that's a critical problem. It only affects testing/unstable either way. Ansgar
