Bug#998867: debootstrap: --no-merged-usr became a no-op
Control: severity -1 grave
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 07:49:03AM +0100, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> Package: debootstrap
> Version: 1.0.126
> Severity: important
>
> Hi,
>
> since 1.0.126 the --no-merged-usr option became a no-op if for any code
> name but
> etch*|lenny|squeeze|wheezy|jessie*|stretch|ascii|buster|beowulf|bullseye
>
> This means that I cannot create a Debian chroot from Debian unstable
> from 10 years ago from snapshot.debian.org without merged-/usr and thus
> my chroot will behave differently as it did back then.
>
> Please re-enable --no-merged-usr so that I can re-create old chroots
> from snapshot.d.o again.
>
Also, build chroots must still be created without merged-usr for
sid/bookworm, until something's been done to migrate user systems.
Cheers,
Julien
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