Bug#669129: debootstrap: deboostrap fails after libept update

[Olivier Sallou <osallou@debian.org>]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.39
Severity: important


libept upgraded recently its package and it creates an issue with
debootstrap (it fails).
debootstrap loads important priority packages but libept1 and libept1.4.12 both have
"priority: important" set.
However libept1 is not compatible with libapt-pkg4.12 which is the current version used.

debootstrap loads both packages, though only libept1.4.12 should be loaded.

This results in  W: Failure while configuring base packages

I added some info in bug #472704  but created this one as an independant bug after analysis.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget                          1.13.4-2   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  gnupg                         1.4.12-4   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

debootstrap suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information