Bug#930788: creating /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Package: apt,dselect
Severity: normal

Hi,

  [ X-Debbugs-Cc'ed -boot@ for debootstrap ]

today I learned that debootstrap as special code to create the file
/var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt (contents: "apt apt"); this is the function
setup_dselect_method in functions.  It seems wrong that debootstrap
has to know about such a particular detail.

Alternatives to debootstrap might also not create the file at all.

So I wonder if this could be created somewhere else.  An APT developer
said this is used by dselect and suggested to file a bug against
apt,dselect; he also had the idea that the file might be created in
dselect's postinst.

Ansgar