In September 2018, I will request that vmdebootstrap be removed from Debian. Please switch to a better tool now. From the NEWS file: vmdebootstrap is not going to be included in the release of Debian buster. Please switch to another tool for building Debian system images automatically, such as vmdb2, debos, or FAI. You have until September, 2018. The reason for this is that vmdebootstrap has a software architecture that makes it difficult to modify or test. Many desirable changes to vmdebootstrap are so hard to make that its author doesn't even want to contemplate them. Worse, fixing some of the known bugs are difficult. Because of this, the vmdebootstrap upstream author and Debian package maintainer will get vmdebootstrap removed from Debian before the buster release. Bugs in vmdebootstrap are unlikely to be fixed, unless they have no workaround and threaten user data or are a security problem. vmdb2 is the second attempt by the vmdebootstrap author to write a tool for building Debian system images. It is much more flexible than the first attempt, and much easier to modify. Unfortunately, the same things that make vmdebootstrap hard to maintain make it hard to add backwards compatibility to vmdb2 for command line and configuration file syntax. vmdb2 is not a drop-in replacement. You'll have to re-do all the image creation work with vmdb2. There are many other tools for the same purpose. You may want to compare several and pick the one you
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