Bug#836525: debootstrap: doesn't support arch-qualified dependencies

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Hey folks,

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 07:45:13PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>On 2016-12-19 13:59 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> 
>> I think that needs to be reverted in dpkg, we really want to be able to
>> create sid chroots with stable debootstrap.
>
>Good idea.  Can this bug be fixed in stretch, so that it remains
>possible to create sid chroots with stable debootstrap in the next two
>years?
>
>More and more packages gain a dependency on perl:any, see #852017 for
>the latest incarnation.

I'm looking through debootstrap bugs right now. I'm thinking this
patch looks minimal and sane enough to take it for a pre-stretch
upload.

Any objections?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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