Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.29
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
This bug is related to the mail at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00978.html
which discusses the existance of both the build-essential package and
the field. Quick summary: we think that in the longer term (i.e. after
squeeze is dropped from the main archive at the ends of its security
support) the field should go and the package should be the definition
(it already is de-facto for most things including cdebootstrap).
On Sat, 26, Mar, 2011 at 10:53:07AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert spoke thus..
> As far as we know currently the main user of this field seems to be
> debootstrap in its buildd variant mode.
I just went and checked that changing to using the package wouldn't make
any difference (trivial patch at
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/mhy/debootstrap.git;a=commitdiff;h=782b75f69f383e4d0e6f8909c9a69844c9f769af
)
Using lenny squeeze wheezy and sid, I found no differences to dpkg
--get-selections (on amd64) before and after the above patch (using
debootstrap --variant=buildd ${d} ${d} http://mirror/debian/
)
Thanks,
Mark
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for five cents."
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
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