Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.89 Severity: minor Tags: patch The debootstrap man page says: The default, with no --variant=X argument, is to create a base Debian installation in TARGET.
but does not explain what comes in the base Debian installation. The patch included tries to improve that. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.18-5 Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5 ii gnupg 2.1.18-6 debootstrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
commit 5e18585594bf93a1bec5e9f4f2496e016084805c Author: Emmanuel Kasper <m...@debian.org> Date: Tue Aug 22 22:12:21 2017 +0200 Document which packages are installed by a default variant The default base system installed by debootstrap includes all packages with Pritority essential and important, but this was not yet documented. diff --git a/debootstrap.8 b/debootstrap.8 index e802003..a3afc90 100644 --- a/debootstrap.8 +++ b/debootstrap.8 @@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ With this option set, this behaviour is disabled. .IP "\fB\-\-variant=minbase|buildd|fakechroot\fP" Name of the bootstrap script variant to use. Currently, the variants supported are minbase, which only includes -essential packages and apt; buildd, which installs the build-essential +\fIessential\fR packages and apt; buildd, which installs the build-essential packages into .IR TARGET ; and fakechroot, which installs the packages without root privileges. -The default, with no \fB\-\-variant=X\fP argument, is to create a base -Debian installation in -.IR TARGET . +The default, with no \fB\-\-variant=X\fP argument, is to create a +base Debian installation with all packages of priority \fIessential\fR and +\fIimportant\fR, including apt. .IP .IP "\fB\-\-merged-usr\fP" Create /{bin,sbin,lib}/ symlinks pointing to their counterparts in /usr/.