Bug#598080: debootstrap: Empty devices.tar.gz

[intrigeri@boum.org]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.24
Severity: important

Hi,

now that makedev has priority extra instead of required,
the existence of basic devices nodes in a debootstrapped chroot (such
as /dev/random) purely relies on what is in the devices.tar.gz
provided by the debootstrap binary package.

1.0.23 had a bunch of devices in there.
However, 1.0.24's devices.tar.gz only contains an empty dev/ directory.
This breaks e.g. builds of Live images using Debian Live.

I haven't investigated this issue enough to tell the cause of the
problem. A somewhat unclean build environment might be involved, since
rebuilding from the source package in my sid chroot (using pbuilder
and cowbuilder) produces a binary package that has a devices tarball
full of usefull. Same when building from SVN.

(Temporary workarounds: downgrade to 1.0.23 or use cdebootstrap.)

Bye,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget                          1.12-2.1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  gnupg                         1.4.10-4   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

debootstrap suggests no packages.

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