Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.64 Severity: normal make devices.tar.gz runs MAKEDEV, so the instructions to run debootstrap from source don't work on !debian.
setup_devices contains old code to bind mount /dev when it's managed by devfs. Updating that code to check for /dev managed by udev and bind mounting then might be one approach to improve this. The resulting chroot would need to have /dev/ bind mounted into it in order to be used, which seems reasonable. Alternatively, a debootstrap tarball could be provided targeting this use case, including a prebuilt devices.tar.gz. Alternatively, the devices.tar.gz Makefile target could, if MAKEDEV is not in path, just tar up the system's /dev to make it. I suspect that some people in this situation download the .deb from debian and manually unpack it to get a prebuilt devices.tar.gz. Although this requires both ar and (for no good reason) xz, which are not universally available outside debian systems. -- see shy jo
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