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Bug#684498: debootstrap uses an obsolete call to dpkg (--print-installation-architecture)



Hello,

and thanks for that.

Jeremiah C. Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com> (10/08/2012):
> Package: debootstrap
> Version: 1.0.10
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I ran debootstrap and received this error: 
> dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.
> 
> I've attached a patch that fixes this rather minor issue.

Maybe we could be a little more conservative, i.e.: try
--print-architecture and if that doesn't work, fall back to
--print-installation-architecture?

(No time right now to check when that appeared.)

> --- /usr/sbin/debootstrap	2008-07-02 17:44:35.000000000 +0200
> +++ my-debootstrap	2012-08-10 15:12:03.000000000 +0200
> @@ -335,8 +335,8 @@
>  if [ "$ARCH" != "" ]; then
>  	true
>  elif [ -x /usr/bin/dpkg ] && \
> -     /usr/bin/dpkg --print-installation-architecture >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> -	ARCH=`/usr/bin/dpkg --print-installation-architecture`
> +     /usr/bin/dpkg --print-architecture >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> +	ARCH=`/usr/bin/dpkg --print-architecture`
>  elif type udpkg >/dev/null 2>&1 && \
>       udpkg --print-architecture >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>  	ARCH=`/usr/bin/udpkg --print-architecture`

Mraw,
KiBi.

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