Re: Is running dpkg-buildpackage manually from the command line forbidden?
Johannes Schauer writes:
> My advice would also be to switch from debootstrap to mmdebstrap because the
> latter is able to create a chroot with only Essential:yes packages in it while
> debootstrap includes Priority:required packages as well. Alternatively,
> debootstrap could gain a variant only installing Essential:yes packages and
> their dependencies (why doesn't it have that already?).
Debian doesn't support systems that don't have "required" packages
installed. So buildds should have them installed. Policy states:
"Removing a required package may cause your system to become totally
broken and you may not even be able to use dpkg to put things back, so
only do so if you know what you are doing."
"Essential" packages just have additional requirements (in particular
essential packages must work even in the "unpacked" state).
Ansgar
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