makiing boot-floppies in a clean chroot

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

i feel dense :/

i have boot-floppies in a clean woody and sid chroot. they both pass
make check with no problems.

but for make, they both fail at the same place:

i18n_low_space=true  ./rootdisk.sh "" /archive/debian/download 3700 3.0 "" C ""
I: internationalized mode enabled
... snip of uninteresting stuff ...
I: determining set of required libraries
E: the following required libraries weren't extracted: /lib/libslang.so.1
E: ./rootdisk.sh abort

looking through the list of stuff in scripts/rootdisk/ it seems to pick
up slang1 (which has /lib/libslang.so.1) in EXTRACT_LIST_non-i18n

since this is an internationalised mode, i assume that it is picking up
on 
EXTRACT_LIST_i18n:slang1a-utf8
EXTRACT_LIST_i386_non-i18n-mixed-build:slang1-utf8

and i guess that neither one of those has the /lib/libslang.so.1
symlink.

how to fix, and am i the only one that is seeing these problems?
and if so, _why_ am i the only one?

-john