On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:08:50PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > for the avoidance of doubt: I have used debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1... Ok, so the problem is that in wheezy, deboostrap is no longer able to create a chroot of jessie or sid. IMHO, this is definitely worthy to be fixed in a point release of wheezy.