I confirmed that the resulting target dir of debootstrap in Jammy (with patch/MERGED_USR=no) and Mantic is the same, with a comparison of `ls -lR` (normalized for Month/Day/Time fields).
... Test command for Jammy (patched) and Mantic: # debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=minbase --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg noble /tmp/nobletest http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu Dir listing for Jammy (patched) and Mantic: deboostrap-jammy # ls -lR /tmp/nobletest/ > list.jammy deboostrap-mantic # ls -lR /tmp/nobletest/ > list.mantic Normalization and comparison: $ sed -i 's/[A-Z][a-z][a-z] .[0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]/DATETIME/' list.jammy list.mantic $ diff -U0 list.jammy list.mantic --- list.jammy 2024-02-26 19:39:49.102864808 -0300 +++ list.mantic 2024-02-26 19:39:49.114864569 -0300 @@ -76 +76 @@ --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 DATETIME hostname +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 DATETIME hostname @@ -7093 +7093 @@ --rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60238 DATETIME bootstrap.log +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60045 DATETIME bootstrap.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2054925 Title: Debootstrap fails for Noble with base-files 13ubuntu7 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/2054925/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs