Bug#904804: debootstrap: Unable to deboostrap a sid environment on stretch

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

control: reassign -1 util-linux

Hi,

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 15:47:39 +0800
Nicolas Braud-Santoni <nicolas@braud-santoni.eu> wrote:
> I just realised it's currently impossible to debootstrap a sid (build)
> environment on Debian stretch, creating difficulties for attendees of the
> DebConf packaging workshop, presumably because of util-linux being
> uninstallable.

 I confirmed it with current debootstrap on sid, but it's not
 debootstrap's fault but it's in repo.

>>  login (1:4.5-1.1) breaks util-linux (<< 2.32-0.2~) and is installed.

> shadow (1:4.5-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>   * Non-maintainer upload (greetings from DebCamp/DebConf Taiwan).
>   * Stop shipping su and break old util-linux version. (See #833256)
>     - Breaks on old version to force lockstep upgrade, which should
>       really be a depends-new-version (and can be switched around
>       together with util-linux once the transition is finished).
>       Using Breaks/Depends the 'wrong' way around is to make apt
>       unpack things in the 'right' order (avoiding any gaps where
>       /bin/su is not available during the upgrade phase).
> 
>  -- Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>  Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:07:37 +0200

 However, util-linux is (2.32-0.1). I'm not sure which side should care
 about it, but once reassign to util-linux.
  
 
-- 
Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>