Bug#926216: debootstrap: Add dpkgopt

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:52:25 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp> (2019-04-02):
> > package: debootstrap
> > severity: wishlist
> > 
> >  mmdebstrap has aptopt and dpkgopt option to manage apt and dpkg via
> >  passing some options to it, put conf file to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99mmdebstrap
> >  and /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99mmdebstrap. I think it's worth to add such
> >  option to debootstrap, especially dpkgopt to reduce image size via
> >  "--dpkgopt='path-exclude=/usr/share/man/*' \
> >   --dpkgopt='path-exclude=/usr/share/locale/*' \
> >   --dpkgopt='path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/*' \" for minimize it.
> 
> Looks like a job for localepurge, rather than for debootstrap…

The dpkg --path-exclude options completely supersede localepurge. They
avoid unpacking the files in the first place, rather than extracting
them and then deleting them.

Please consider adding support for this.