mat bentley <mathewkbentley@gmail.com> (2016-01-24): > This commit at > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debootstrap.git/diff/functions?id=5518b79792dd93a416464c0744b87eb1a32ff770 > > appears to 100% of the time invoke setup_devices_simple function; which > means pre-existing paths can never execute. at worst this led to an issue > w/ crouton an installer for ubuntu chroots tailored for chrome os: > https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/2387 > > and at best - it yields dead code; a sign of sloppy development. if it > cannot execute it should be removed. Maybe that was done on purpose so as not to lose the code entirely, and so as to be able to quickly add whatever detection people might need to get the old behaviour once they have explained their use case through a bug report against debootstrap in the Debian bug tracking system? KiBi.
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