Hi! On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 13:59:51 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > > On 12/19/2016 10:58 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Control: severity -1 serious > > > > On 2016-11-12 20:32 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2016-09-04 19:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>> The attached patch should fix the problem with arch-qualifiers in > >>> debootstrap, tested with > >>> "debootstrap --variant=minbase --include=autoconf-dickey" which fails > >>> right now in unstable but succeeds with the patch (autoconf-dickey > >>> depends on perl:any). > >> > >> It should be noted that dpkg-dev in unstable now also depends on > >> perl:any. This does not cause problems yet, but only because > >> libdpkg-perl depends on perl and debootstrap silently ignores any > >> dependencies it cannot resolve, which is a bug in itself. > >> > >> This bug is a ticking time bomb, would be nice to apply my patch before > >> it explodes. > > > > The latest dpkg upload (1.18.17) changed the dependency of libdpkg-perl > > to perl:any as well, and now "debootstrap --variant=buildd" fails > > because it no longer downloads perl.
Oww, sorry, had forgotten about your previous thread where you mentioned this. :/ > I think that needs to be reverted in dpkg, we really want to be able to > create sid chroots with stable debootstrap. Hmm, certainly right, I'll queue the revert for 1.18.18. Also Ansgar mentioned on IRC that the other pkgdetails implementation in base-installer also needed to be handled, perhaps by stripping the arch-qualification centrally from debootstrap itself. And josch also mentioned that perhaps it might be a good idea to consider switching to use multistrap in Debian, as that's always going to be more feature complete. Thanks, Guillem