Bug#544120: debootstrap: --make-tarball yields exit value 1 (one)

[Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson@gisladisker.se>]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.10lenny1
Severity: important

The following perfectly valid and correct usage

   # debootstrap --include host --exclude laptop-detect \
                 --arch i386 --make-tarball ./packs.tgz \
				 etch /mnt/ http://host-of-choice/debian/

completes with return value 1, thus preventing its use
in a GNU Makefile, unless error checking is avoided on
the above statement. This must be judged as a major
impediment and undesirable behaviour.

The mandatory full file path demanded by "--unpack-tarball"
in version 1.0.10lenny1, contrasted to the relative path
accepted bu "--make-tarball", is likewise annoying, but is
easier to detect and circumvent in standard ways.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (90, 'testing'), (80, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  wget                1.11.4-2             retrieves files from the web

debootstrap recommends no packages.

debootstrap suggests no packages.

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