Re: Bug#547218: debootstrap: cannot create squeeze chroot

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

tags 547218 - patch
thanks

On Thursday 17 September 2009, Eric Cooper wrote:
> debootstrap currently fails to create a squeeze chroot.  The log
> output shows that readline-common depends either on dpkg >= 1.15.4
> (which is not yet in squeeze) or on install-init (which isn't being
> installed), so it fails.

I cannot reproduce the problem for the amd64 architecture using a current 
mirror. What architecture did you see this for and what mirror did you 
use?

I do see that dpkg 1.15.4 is indeed not in testing yet.

> If I add
>     --include=install-init
> to the command line to break the cycle it works correctly.

That is not the correct solution. It is fine as a workaround, but certainly 
not something to apply to debootstrap as a patch.

It sounds as if this one will resolve itself naturally when the new version 
of dpkg migrates to testing. I'm closing your bug report as there really 
is no problem in debootstrap itself, but CCing debian-release who may be 
able to speed up the migration of dpkg (and are probably responsible for 
breaking the dependencies in the first place).

Please send the full debootstrap log to the debian-release mailing list so 
they may check the exact cause of the problem.

Cheers,
FJP