Bug#557296: debootstrap: Use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> In my opinion debootstrap shouldn't work differently inside of Debian
>> so I think we shouldn't use dpkg-deb for this. Even though it would
>> make our life easier giving us "new features" for free it also makes
>> much more difficult to spot possible missing features when using it in
>> foreign distributions and I believe this is something we ought to
>> support well.
>
> That was my initial reaction as well. One thing that could count against
> that is that in Debian Installer dpkg-deb is not available either, which
> would probably ensure sufficient testing of that path.
>
> I should IMO be agreed that debootstrap should never rely on features not
> commonly available using basic *nix tools.
Supporting dpkg-deb in this case will only add code complexity
maintainence issues.
I can foresee we asking: This debootstrap failure were with it running
inside of Debian or d-i?
Cheers,
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Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems
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