As a result of this discussion, I've submitted requests to BTS asking debootstrap to stop installing modconf (#232673), lilo (#232667) and mbr (#232672), and added a patch to the bug asking for syslinux to be dropped as well (#205379).
Hopefully the maintainer upload a new version soon. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]