Am 07.04.24 um 18:19 schrieb Raphaël Halimi:
Note 1: one could think that it's debootstrap's fault for not resolving dependencies on virtual packages; indeed, it has already been reported several times (#878961, merged with #827602 and #931760; as well as Launchpad #86536) unfortunately never fixed yet; but, IMHO, since systemd-container is usually needed in systemd-nspawn containers, and (except for the host) is usually installed via debootstrap, it makes it kind of a special case, in the sense that systemd (as a whole) should take care that systemd-nspawn containers can be built and started easily.
As you correctly noticed, this is a bug/fault in debootstrap.I don't think individual packages should work around that, so I'm included to close this as wontfix (or reassign/merge to debootstrap).
Fwiw, you might use an alternative debootstrap tool like mmdebstrap which works properly in that regard.
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