Bug#521545: debootstrap: Failure while unpacking required package with --foreign debootstrap for sid in second stage

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

At Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:58:35 -0300,
Otavio Salvador wrote:
> 
> Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> writes:
> 
> > I: Unpacking zlib1g...
> > W: Failure while unpacking required packages.  This will be attempted up to five times.
> 
> It looks like your .deb is broken; could you check it testing the
> package of your temp dir?

I found that there was /debootstrap/debootstrap.log, which contained
useful error messages from dpkg.  I think this bugreport should be
closed now that I have found the problem lies somewhere else.
However, it would be nice if /debootstrap/debootstrap.log is
documented somewhere, or '--verbose' option did something useful, or
debootstrap gave me any error message in console.


I filed #521549 for this specific bug:

Preparing to replace debianutils 3.0 (using debianutils_3.0_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
	  .
	  .
Unpacking sensible-utils (from sensible-utils_0.0.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing sensible-utils_0.0.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/sensible-editor.1.gz', which is also in package debianutils
Preparing to replace sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-61 (using sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-61_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sysvinit-utils ...