Bug#833525: debootstrap: Deleted my entire /home partition using "mostly harmless" debootstrap --print-debs option

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

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 07:21:38 +0100
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> wrote:
> That doesn't work:
> 
> +---
> | $ dash -c '[ -e /bin/* ]'
> | dash: 1: [: /bin/2to3-2.7: unexpected operator
> +---

 Thanks for the catch, fixed version here.


diff --git a/debootstrap b/debootstrap
index a257e09..083473d 100755
--- a/debootstrap
+++ b/debootstrap
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ fi
 ###########################################################################
 
 TARGET_EMPTY=true
-if [  -e "$TARGET"/* ]; then
+if [ "$(ls -A "$TARGET")" ]; then
        TARGET_EMPTY=false
 fi