Bug#798562: debootstrap: Support "scripts" sharing code with Debian but with different default_mirror and keyring

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 21:11:53 +0100
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> >  I've made a PoC patch for this issue
> >  - relocate scripts files to each distro directroy
> 
> I think this is not a good idea. The location of the scripts file is part
> of the public interface since debootstrap takes a script file
> as 4th parameter.

 It is only in source package, all scripts files are put into same
 /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts directory. It'd be nice to add another
 distro to add scripts directory in the future. Not necessary but nice,
 IMO.


> Or maybe it's a good idea because we are going to have collisions one day
> between codenames of the various distributions but then you have to keep
> the current files for a little longer and you probably should consider
> further changes so that we can pass "debian/sid" or "kali/kali-rolling"
> as 1st parameter (suite).

 It would break current usage of debootstrap, so I would like to avoid it.


> But this is also not required to implement this:
> 
> >  - split code from scripts/debian/sid
> 
> This part looks fine from a cursory review.

 Thanks, it is also good for archived Debian releases like squeeze.


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp