Bug#872948: debootstrap: Debootstrap does not explain what is calls a Debian base system

[Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org>]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.89
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

The debootstrap man page says:
The default, with no --variant=X argument, is to create a base Debian installation in TARGET.

but does not explain what comes in the base Debian installation.
The patch included tries to improve that.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget  1.18-5

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2017.5
ii  gnupg                   2.1.18-6

debootstrap suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

commit 5e18585594bf93a1bec5e9f4f2496e016084805c
Author: Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 22 22:12:21 2017 +0200

    Document which packages are installed by a default variant
    
    The default base system installed by debootstrap includes all packages with Pritority essential and
    important, but this was not yet documented.

diff --git a/debootstrap.8 b/debootstrap.8
index e802003..a3afc90 100644
--- a/debootstrap.8
+++ b/debootstrap.8
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ With this option set, this behaviour is disabled.
 .IP "\fB\-\-variant=minbase|buildd|fakechroot\fP"
 Name of the bootstrap script variant to use.
 Currently, the variants supported are minbase, which only includes
-essential packages and apt; buildd, which installs the build-essential
+\fIessential\fR packages and apt; buildd, which installs the build-essential
 packages into
 .IR TARGET ;
 and fakechroot, which installs the packages without root privileges.
-The default, with no \fB\-\-variant=X\fP argument, is to create a base
-Debian installation in
-.IR TARGET .
+The default, with no \fB\-\-variant=X\fP argument, is to create a
+base Debian installation with all packages of priority \fIessential\fR and
+\fIimportant\fR, including apt.
 .IP
 .IP "\fB\-\-merged-usr\fP"
 Create /{bin,sbin,lib}/ symlinks pointing to their counterparts in /usr/.