Package: apt,dselect Severity: normal Hi,
[ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ] today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function setup_dselect_method in functions. It seems wrong that debootstrap has to know about such a particular detail. Alternatives to debootstrap might also not create the file at all. So I wonder if this could be created somewhere else. An APT developer said this is used by dselect and suggested to file a bug against apt,dselect; he also had the idea that the file might be created in dselect's postinst. Ansgar
