Bug#1066145: debootstrap: fails with multiversion repositories, including Debian’s

[Luke Yasuda <jing@jing.rocks>]

On 2025-10-10 21:18, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 06:13:42PM +0900, Luke Yasuda wrote:
> > I was able to reproduce this, using a (multiversion) Packages file 
> > generated
> > by reprepro 5.4.7-1 (in experimental). Allow me to elaborate.
>
> interesting! kudos for finding this reproducer!
>
> Can you please try if mmdebstrap can cope with such repositories? That 
> would
> give you an immediate workaround also.

Yes, I see that mmdebstrap can handle multiversion Packages file, 
probably because mmdebstrap uses apt to resolve dependency?

But we would still need a fix for debootstrap when it comes to 
debian-installer.

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