Bug#361963: building chroots or using pbuilder fails due to missing base-config

[Wolfgang Lonien <wolfgang@lonien.de>]

Package: base-config
Version: 2.73
Severity: important


On Sid, I cannot build Sid chroots (neither manually nor with pbuilder) 
anymore. I'm getting (for instance):

wjl@electra2-sid:/home/chroots$ sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid
W: /home/wjl/.pbuilderrc does not exist
Distribution is sid.
Building the build environment
 -> running cdebootstrap
/usr/bin/cdebootstrap
P: Retrieving Release.gpg
P: Retrieving Release
P: Parsing Release
P: Retrieving Packages.gz
P: Validating Packages
P: Parsing Packages
W: resolver (base-config): package doesn't exist
[...]
E: Couldn't install system due to errors!
pbuilder: cdebootstrap failed
 -> Aborting with an error
 -> cleaning the build env
    -> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//1796 and its 
subdirectorieswjl@electra2-sid:/home/chroots$

This relates (possibly) to #356709.

thx,
wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.85          Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                        0.6.43.3      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  bsdutils                   1:2.12r-8     Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data               20060317      Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-60 Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                    1.4.72        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                2.15.5        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base               0.14.5-2      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd                     1:4.0.15-4    change and administer password and

base-config recommends no packages.