On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> In my opinion debootstrap shouldn't work differently inside of Debian >> so I think we shouldn't use dpkg-deb for this. Even though it would >> make our life easier giving us "new features" for free it also makes >> much more difficult to spot possible missing features when using it in >> foreign distributions and I believe this is something we ought to >> support well. > > That was my initial reaction as well. One thing that could count against > that is that in Debian Installer dpkg-deb is not available either, which > would probably ensure sufficient testing of that path. > > I should IMO be agreed that debootstrap should never rely on features not > commonly available using basic *nix tools.
Supporting dpkg-deb in this case will only add code complexity maintainence issues. I can foresee we asking: This debootstrap failure were with it running inside of Debian or d-i? Cheers, -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
