Bug#1031828: debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

severity 1031828 normal
tags 1031828 - patch
retitle 1031828 debootstrap: Please document --usr-merge option in --help output
thanks

El 24/2/23 a las 0:12, Luca Boccassi escribió:
> Please see:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2022/09/msg00005.html

Ok, did read, but also too long, and that was before the changes
made on 2022-11.

I don't use debootstrap every day. Instead, I usually upgrade already
existing chroots from the bookworm of yesterday to the bookworm
of today. As a result, my chroots were naturally upgraded to usr-merge.

If this is not supposed to happen, I would ideally like to see it documented
somewhere (but I could agree that debootstrap is not to blame for that).

So, if the buildds are still running non-usr-merged chroot, can you at least
document the --usr-merge option which already exists? It will certainly be
needed when creating chroots for trixie from bookworm, so I would say it
should be documented (I guess that would be a one line change).

I'm retitling the bug accordingly.

Thanks.