Ansgar Burchardt dixit: >That looks like the same issue as I reported in sbuild in #817236 (which
It looks so, yes (Cc’ing now). >severity maybe should be raised if this is an issue for more packages): It certainly is! For example, a couple of months ago, cbmuser could not sponsor my mksh upload because he could not get it to build, while XTaran could do so successfully, and it took quite a while for cbmuser to figure out the difference, which led to this explanatory commit: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/mksh.git/diff/?id=aebc8e59054052a35e593718b99454ea94aead12&id2=810e5b3928ea17a9d332475aadd19f6f8e14d245 See also the thread starting at: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-ports-devel/Week-of-Mon-20160530/000185.html >> … so I assume that something in debootstrap changed so that >> there is now a symlink created instead of a proper device node. >there needs to be a mount for /dev/pts to accommodate for the changes in >debootstrap (and optionally a bind mount for /dev/ptmx if there are >still old chroots around). While I use only cowbuilder, I insist support for old chroots is too important to lose. I’d r̲e̲a̲l̲l̲y̲ prefer if debootstrap could create the device node again. AIUI it was not dropped from an act of deliberation but merely as side effect of the devices tarball cleanup. Other nodes (such as dev/tty) are still created by it, so I don’t see why dev/ptmx needs to be an exception if there are good reasons for it to not be. Thanks, //mirabilos -- <hecker> cool ein Ada Lovelace Google-Doodle. aber zum 197. Geburtstag? Hätten die nicht noch 3 Jahre warten können? <mirabilos> bis dahin gibts google nicht mehr <hecker> ja, könnte man meinen. wahrscheinlich ist der angekündigte welt- untergang aus dem maya-kalender die globale abschaltung von google ☺ und darum müssen die die doodles vorher noch raushauen