Bug#1019697: debootstrap: aid reproducible boostrapping by providing a --cleanup-logs option

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Holger Levsen wrote:

> This bug is about the first step. It would be really nice if debootstrap
> had an option called --cleanup-logs which would delete those logs.

Would it be sensible to suggest that, instead of an explicit
command-line flag, that debootstrap would do this cleanup if
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is present?

If it helps, the idea of using the presence (or non-presence) of
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to slightly adjust the behaviour of a program is
already being used as a flag in other places.

(If it helps, the parallel bug for cdebootstrap is #1019698.)


Regards,

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