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#1069787 [i|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: autopkgtest fails since t64 migration
Reported by: Mark Hindley <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:21:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.134; Filed 1 year and 267 days ago; Modified 1 year and 266 days ago;
#1125521 [i|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Fails to run on CachyOS due to multipl architectures defined in pacman.conf
Reported by: Nickolai Mardanov <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:11:00 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141;

#514016 [i| | ] [debootstrap] cdebootstrap - packages with symlinks to dirs (libc6) can lead to writes outside the new root
Reported by: Bastian Blank <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:00:07 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 16 years and 351 days ago; Modified 8 years and 62 days ago;
#762304 [i| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap doesn't unmount /proc and /sys if caught Ctrl-C
Reported by: Askar Safin <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:54:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.48+deb7u1; Filed 11 years and 121 days ago; Modified 2 years and 16 days ago;
#776917 [i| | ] [debootstrap] cannot switch init to sysvinit
Reported by: Martin Wuertele <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:27:09 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.67; Filed 10 years and 350 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#827602 [i| |=☣] [debootstrap] libdirectfb-dev depends on libpng but fails to install it when installing libdirectfb-dev
Reported by: Olliver Schinagl <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:21:02 UTC; Severity: important; Merged with 878961, 931760; Found in version 1.0.81ubuntu3.2; Filed 9 years and 214 days ago; Modified 1 year and 284 days ago;
#968549 [i| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: should handle multi-arch dependencies properly
Reported by: Winfried Münch <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 10:03:02 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 5 years and 251 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#997094 [i| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: 764:debootstrap cp "$0" "$TARGET/ instead of cp "/usr/sbin/$0" "$TARGET/
Reported by: Veek <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:45:02 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 4 years and 86 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#1066145 [i| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: fails with multiversion Packages file
Reported by: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:15:01 UTC; Severity: important; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.134; Filed 1 year and 310 days ago; Modified 98 days ago;

#694886 [i|Mu|=☣] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Creates available file w/o Description fields
Reported by: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 19:42:01 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: moreinfo, upstream; Merged with 712481; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.44; Filed 13 years and 49 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#1032530 [i|M| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Unable to debootstrap Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy)
Reported by: Ian Chilton <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 19:15:02 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114+deb10u1; Filed 2 years and 315 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;

#918659 [n|+| ] [debootstrap] Debootstrap started to fail with Busybox
Reported by: Piotr Jurkiewicz <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 03:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.113; Filed 7 years and 11 days ago; Modified 7 years and 10 days ago;
#971700 [n|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Please add option to get full log on stderr
Reported by: Sven Mueller <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 12:03:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 5 years and 104 days ago; Modified 5 years and 104 days ago;
#1035567 [n|+|☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Does not support APT repositories with modern split arch:all support
Reported by: Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 14:36:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2; Fixed in version debootstrap/1.0.134; Filed 2 years and 257 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#1057650 [n|+u| ] [debootstrap] reportbug: debootstrap did not try to retry download packages on failure
Reported by: Benedikt Spranger <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 15:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, upstream; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.133; Filed 2 years and 42 days ago; Modified 2 years and 42 days ago;
#1091932 [n|+u| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Remove support for discontinued Tanglu derivative
Reported by: Bastien Traverse <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, upstream; Filed 1 year and 14 days ago; Modified 1 year and 14 days ago;

#768062 [n| | ] [debootstrap] Does not take already-selected alternate dependencies into account
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.64; Filed 11 years and 76 days ago; Modified 125 days ago;
#845220 [n| | ] [src:debootstrap] debootstrap wrongly assumes that newest package is last
Reported by: s s <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.89; Filed 9 years and 58 days ago; Modified 5 years and 335 days ago;
#864981 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: cannot unpack into "preseeded" directory
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:54:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.90; Filed 8 years and 214 days ago; Modified 7 years and 165 days ago;
#871255 [n| | ] [debootstrap] -k added to tar prevents pre-loading of directory
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.91; Filed 8 years and 164 days ago; Modified 7 years and 165 days ago;
#922729 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: unable to override arch-test
Reported by: Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114; Filed 6 years and 333 days ago; Modified 3 years and 5 days ago;
#929889 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Support unconventional PATH on foreign distros
Reported by: Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 18:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114; Filed 6 years and 230 days ago; Modified 6 years and 229 days ago;
#930428 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap should ensure matching _apt uid
Reported by: Michael Schaller <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114; Filed 6 years and 220 days ago; Modified 6 years and 194 days ago;
#932357 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: failed to create a pbuilder base.tgz inside a systemd-nspawn unprevilledged container
Reported by: Alberto Garcia <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:21:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.115; Filed 6 years and 184 days ago; Modified 5 years and 314 days ago;
#950889 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: chroot no longer builds with user-owned target dir
Reported by: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 20:42:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114; Filed 5 years and 345 days ago; Modified 5 years and 339 days ago;
#953637 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap remove /proc when ran under docker
Reported by: Corentin Labbe <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114; Filed 5 years and 312 days ago; Modified 5 years and 225 days ago;
#953861 [n| |☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap: buildd variant uselessly includes libgcc1
Reported by: Johannes 'josch' Schauer <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 07:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.121; Fixed in versions debootstrap/1.0.134, debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 5 years and 309 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#963079 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: --unpack-tarball without matching url from --make-tarball cause errors
Reported by: "Marco" <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 5 years and 213 days ago; Modified 5 years and 213 days ago;
#973852 [n| | ] [debootstrap] Debootstrap with mirror_style 'main' fails
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 02:20:33 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 73 days ago; Modified 5 years and 72 days ago;
#974084 [n| | ] [debootstrap] Rework Devuan targets into separate entities
Reported by: Ivan J. <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 19:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 5 years and 69 days ago; Modified 1 year and 347 days ago;
#985149 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap stumbles over tabs in include parameter
Reported by: Christian Lamparter <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 4 years and 310 days ago; Modified 4 years and 307 days ago;
#1003032 [n|S| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: harden signature checking
Reported by: Philippe Cerfon <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 23:15:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: security; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.126+nmu1; Filed 4 years and 15 days ago; Modified 4 years and 15 days ago;
#1018740 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: better initialisation of /etc/machine-id
Reported by: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 20:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123+deb11u1; Filed 3 years and 141 days ago; Modified 3 years and 92 days ago;
#1024870 [n| | ] [debootstrap] Scenario in which --extra-suites leads to breakage
Reported by: "Daniel Richard G." <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1, debootstrap/1.0.134, debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2; Filed 3 years and 51 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#1033482 [n| |☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap fails when invoked with --merged-usr
Reported by: David Heidelberg <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2; Fixed in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 2 years and 298 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#1050719 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Leaving wget-log* files in $PWD
Reported by: Tj <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:36:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2; Filed 2 years and 142 days ago; Modified 2 years and 142 days ago;
#1057145 [n|u| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Sync hangs
Reported by: Андрей Маслов <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:57:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: upstream; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123+deb11u1; Filed 2 years and 48 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#1068935 [n| | ] [src:debootstrap] debootstrap: Creating buildd chroots of trixie/sid from bookworm
Reported by: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 17:57:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 1 year and 278 days ago; Modified 1 year and 278 days ago;
#1071652 [n| | ] [debootstrap] Man page forgets to mention actual --second-stage usage
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 03:27:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 1 year and 239 days ago; Modified 1 year and 239 days ago;
#1076149 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: distro-info shall be at *most* Recommends
Reported by: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.136; Filed 1 year and 189 days ago; Modified 1 year and 189 days ago;
#1088087 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap --exclude=systemd-sysv doesn't work
Reported by: Ava <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 1 year and 55 days ago; Modified 1 year and 53 days ago;
#1093762 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: please use the newer deb822 format
Reported by: Laurent Bonnaud <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:54:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.140; Filed 359 days ago; Modified 359 days ago;
#1107791 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: E: Target directory '/T' is not empty and it would be wiped
Reported by: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.140~bpo12+1; Filed 216 days ago; Modified 216 days ago;
#1114899 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: output of --print-debs includes unexpected data
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:11:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 127 days ago; Modified 127 days ago;
#1115158 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: default invocation creates chroot with broken symlinks
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:55:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 125 days ago; Modified 124 days ago;
#1115879 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Creates bogus /dev/null file
Reported by: "Daniel Richard G." <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 118 days ago; Modified 115 days ago;
#1118384 [n| | ] [debootstrap] wget no longer default package in trixie
Reported by: Mecid Urganci <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 02:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 90 days ago; Modified 90 days ago;
#1120555 [n| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: debootstrap fails for ubuntu/focal
Reported by: Dima Kogan <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:07:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 65 days ago; Modified 65 days ago;

#618859 [n|MR|=☣] [debootstrap] debirf make fails in symlinked directory
Reported by: jamie <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible; Merged with 619323; Filed 14 years and 308 days ago; Modified 7 years and 288 days ago;
#684520 [n|Mu| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: package validation fails when running on Android+busybox
Reported by: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:30:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, upstream; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.42; Filed 13 years and 162 days ago; Modified 7 years and 303 days ago;
#816892 [n|M+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap synchronize the whole filesystem
Reported by: Kusanagi Kouichi <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 10:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo, patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.79; Filed 9 years and 318 days ago; Modified 7 years and 312 days ago;
#935334 [n|M| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: man page says that --include will add package to download and extract list, but an experiment shows opposite
Reported by: Askar Safin <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:30:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.115; Filed 6 years and 150 days ago; Modified 1 year and 347 days ago;
#940183 [n|M| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Cannot deboostrap an i386/amd64 foreign system from a ppc64le host
Reported by: Niccolò Belli <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.115; Filed 6 years and 127 days ago; Modified 1 year and 347 days ago;
#942875 [n|M| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap does not overwrite existing files even if adviced to do
Reported by: "root" <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i, moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.116; Filed 6 years and 88 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#983494 [n|M| ] [debootstrap] arch-test breaks debootstrap into empty chroot
Reported by: Ben Burton <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 02:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 4 years and 327 days ago; Modified 1 year and 335 days ago;
#1006454 [n|M| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Ubuntu 20 creation fails on passwd configuration
Reported by: "Garrison, William R" <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:03:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 3 years and 326 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;

#682015 [m| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: trouble with examples both in manpages and wiki
Reported by: Patrice Duroux <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:33:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.42; Filed 13 years and 185 days ago; Modified 13 years and 185 days ago;
#693219 [m|u|=] [debootstrap] Doesn't mention --foreign or --second-stage in help output
Reported by: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:54:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: upstream; Merged with 806342; Found in versions debootstrap/1.0.75, debootstrap/1.0.42; Filed 13 years and 66 days ago; Modified 120 days ago;
#891393 [m| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Should warn about distributions that need vsyscall enabled
Reported by: Hideki Yamane <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 07:18:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Filed 7 years and 327 days ago; Modified 7 years and 283 days ago;
#895412 [m| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Cannot find dpkg on NetBSD (or other OSes using pkgsrc)
Reported by: Hideki Yamane <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:39:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Filed 7 years and 282 days ago; Modified 7 years and 8 days ago;
#928775 [m| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Misleading error message on read-only /
Reported by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 21:21:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.114; Filed 6 years and 253 days ago; Modified 6 years and 253 days ago;
#1038157 [m| |☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap: W: Failure while unpacking required packages. This will be attempted
Reported by: Jean-Marc LACROIX <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:48:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123+deb11u1; Fixed in version debootstrap/1.0.127+nmu1; Filed 2 years and 215 days ago; Modified 2 years and 215 days ago;
#1071651 [m| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap --print-debs jumbled output
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 00:18:02 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 1 year and 239 days ago; Modified 1 year and 239 days ago;

#594052 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: create example /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab?
Reported by: Colin Watson <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:48:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.23; Filed 15 years and 150 days ago; Modified 1 year and 352 days ago;
#640992 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] Please keep proxy setting in chroot
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:45:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.36; Filed 14 years and 133 days ago; Modified 2 years and 28 days ago;
#690210 [w|+|☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap: please support multiple suites
Reported by: jhcha54008 <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:27:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in versions debootstrap/1.0.42, debootstrap/1.0.52; Fixed in version debootstrap/1.0.117; Filed 13 years and 100 days ago; Modified 98 days ago;
#700633 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] Debootstrap is very slow. Please use eatmydata to fix this.
Reported by: Phillip Susi <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.46; Filed 12 years and 338 days ago; Modified 4 years and 253 days ago;
#710709 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: consider creating (dangling) /etc/mtab symlink
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 19:30:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.52; Filed 12 years and 232 days ago; Modified 6 years and 263 days ago;
#775449 [w|+S| ] [debootstrap] Provide sha size param instead of using environmental variable
Reported by: jnqnfe <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:57:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch, security; Filed 11 years and 4 days ago; Modified 7 years and 288 days ago;
#811269 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] please consider two patches to allow smaller systems to be installed
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.75; Filed 10 years and 2 days ago; Modified 7 years and 165 days ago;
#826361 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: please allow the packages to be installed to be customizable via enviroment variables
Reported by: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 22:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.81; Filed 9 years and 228 days ago; Modified 9 years and 228 days ago;
#829134 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Changes needed to support unprivileged userns debootstrap
Reported by: Ben Longbons <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:18:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.81; Filed 9 years and 202 days ago; Modified 4 years and 10 days ago;
#861343 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: hardcodes mawk as awk provider
Reported by: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.89; Filed 8 years and 266 days ago; Modified 5 years and 146 days ago;
#926214 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: clean up /var/cache/apt/archives/*
Reported by: Hideki Yamane <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 07:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 6 years and 291 days ago; Modified 5 years and 327 days ago;
#930272 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: needless conditional --keep-debootstrap-dir for log move
Reported by: Matthias <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 14:57:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 6 years and 223 days ago; Modified 5 years and 329 days ago;
#989552 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] [patch] expand description of --variant
Reported by: "McIntyre, Vincent (CASS, Marsfield)" <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 12:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 4 years and 224 days ago; Modified 4 years and 224 days ago;
#1032987 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] Please add support for Deepin beige
Reported by: "陈天宇" <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 09:51:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.127; Filed 2 years and 308 days ago; Modified 2 years and 308 days ago;
#1092641 [w|+| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Can the last 'sync' call be removed?
Reported by: Roland Clobus <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:51:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.140; Filed 1 year and 6 days ago; Modified 1 year and 6 days ago;
#1124604 [w|+|☣] [debootstrap] [PATCH] debootstrap: Support zstd compression for Packages files
Reported by: Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 18:47:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.142; Filed 13 days ago; Modified 12 days ago;

#76244 [w| | ] [debootstrap] download of base doesn't check for available disk
Reported by: Adam Di Carlo <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:03:29 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 0.1.17.30; Filed 25 years and 79 days ago; Modified 14 years and 256 days ago;
#247294 [w| |=] [debootstrap] debootstrap: deboostrap should clean up environment
Reported by: Goswin von Brederlow <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:18:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 264138; Found in version 0.2.41-0.2; Filed 23 years and 142 days ago; Modified 15 years and 281 days ago;
#262191 [w| | ] [debootstrap] deboostrap: Pls implement config file(s) for users to customise package lists
Reported by: John <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:18:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 21 years and 176 days ago; Modified 21 years and 176 days ago;
#399686 [w| |=] [debootstrap] debootstrap should fail when there is no more diskspace.
Reported by: Sven Luther <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:03:21 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 594201; Found in versions debootstrap/0.3.3, debootstrap/1.0.22; Filed 19 years and 61 days ago; Modified 14 years and 256 days ago;
#698347 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: New variant based on PRoot
Reported by: Rémi Duraffort <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:30:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.46; Filed 13 years and 2 days ago; Modified 8 years and 226 days ago;
#714467 [w|u| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: add bash completion
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 17:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: upstream; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.52; Filed 12 years and 204 days ago; Modified 12 years and 204 days ago;
#721093 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: possibly add clarifying comment about $SECOND_STAGE_ONLY
Reported by: Andreas Mohr <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.53; Filed 12 years and 145 days ago; Modified 12 years and 145 days ago;
#732551 [w| | ] [debootstrap] make --foreign / qemu-user-static easier
Reported by: Joey Hess <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:09:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.55; Filed 12 years and 32 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;
#762222 [w| | ] [debootstrap] Support multiple mirrors
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:42:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.62; Filed 11 years and 122 days ago; Modified 6 years and 270 days ago;
#798560 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Add a --suite-config option replacing the need for the script parameter
Reported by: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.72; Filed 10 years and 131 days ago; Modified 10 years and 131 days ago;
#823982 [w| |☣] [debootstrap] debootstrap: --variant=fakechroot fails when host system does not have dbus installed
Reported by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.81; Filed 9 years and 253 days ago; Modified 8 years and 337 days ago;
#827822 [w| | ] [debootstrap] Poor error message in debootstrap invocation
Reported by: Alex Gaynor <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:27:06 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 9 years and 211 days ago; Modified 7 years and 312 days ago;
#926216 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Add dpkgopt
Reported by: Hideki Yamane <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 07:54:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 291 days ago; Modified 6 years and 15 days ago;
#948110 [w| | ] [debootstrap] Please provide options to exclude files from installed image
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 02:00:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.116; Filed 6 years and 15 days ago; Modified 6 years and 15 days ago;
#956570 [w| | ] [debootstrap] should offer possibilities to override host /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hostname
Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.123; Filed 5 years and 279 days ago; Modified 5 years and 265 days ago;
#1019089 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Please add new scripts to support suites byzantium and crimson from PureOS
Reported by: Carsten Schoenert <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 15:15:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.127; Filed 3 years and 136 days ago; Modified 3 years and 136 days ago;
#1019697 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: aid reproducible boostrapping by providing a --cleanup-logs option
Reported by: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:39:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.127; Filed 3 years and 126 days ago; Modified 3 years and 125 days ago;
#1033519 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Fails to bootstrap wheezy (please symlink script as 'archived', like squeeze)
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:48:10 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2; Filed 2 years and 297 days ago; Modified 2 years and 297 days ago;
#1065463 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap can deal with native dpkg file replacement feature
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 00:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.134; Filed 1 year and 318 days ago; Modified 1 year and 309 days ago;
#1067240 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Devuan install scripts in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/
Reported by: Frank Guthausen <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:12:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.134; Filed 1 year and 302 days ago; Modified 1 year and 302 days ago;
#1070832 [w| | ] [debootstrap] option to add an RFC822 apt source
Reported by: Simon Richter <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 07:39:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1; Filed 1 year and 251 days ago;
#1116007 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: does not handle Packages file with several versions of the same package
Reported by: Vincent Danjean <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:35:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 116 days ago; Modified 111 days ago;
#1118984 [w| | ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: suggests squid-deb-proxy-client which is not in unstable
Reported by: Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:51:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.141; Filed 82 days ago; Modified 82 days ago;

#627073 [w|M| ] [debootstrap] print where packages are downloaded from
Reported by: Michal Suchanek <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:00:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 14 years and 248 days ago; Modified 7 years and 303 days ago;
#764851 [w|M| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: Please consider adding information scripts for blankon
Reported by: Rahman Yusri Aftian <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:48:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.63; Filed 11 years and 100 days ago; Modified 7 years and 327 days ago;
#819300 [w|M| ] [debootstrap] should provide default HTTPS mirrors for non-Debian releases too
Reported by: Evgeni Golov <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 09:54:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: moreinfo; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.80; Filed 9 years and 298 days ago; Modified 8 years and 278 days ago;

#246007 [w|☹| ] [debootstrap] Too much temporary space needed during install
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:48:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: wontfix; Filed 21 years and 270 days ago; Modified 5 years and 329 days ago;

#731859 [n|P|☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap: variant=fakechroot fails
Reported by: Johannes Schauer <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:51:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: pending; Found in versions debootstrap/1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1, debootstrap/1.0.55; Fixed in version debootstrap/1.0.134; Filed 12 years and 40 days ago; Modified 341 days ago;
#891009 [n|P| ] [debootstrap] debootstrap: wrongly falls back to https://deb.debian.org when try to create Ubuntu chroot
Reported by: Hideki Yamane <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:03:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: pending; Found in version debootstrap/1.0.56; Filed 7 years and 331 days ago; Modified 1 year and 337 days ago;

#921815 [n| |☺] [debootstrap] debootstrap umount "host" /proc when running in a Docker container
Reported by: "Kristian Klausen" <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2019 04:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in versions debootstrap/1.0.114, debootstrap/1.0.110~bpo9+1; Fixed in version debootstrap/1.0.114+deb10u1; Done: Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>; Filed 6 years and 344 days ago; Modified 2 years and 51 days ago;

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- 106 Outstanding
- 2 Pending Upload
- 1 Resolved
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- 11 Important bugs
- 48 Normal bugs
- 7 Minor bugs
- 43 Wishlist items
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- 23 Patch Available
- 69 Unclassified
- 13 More information needed
- 1 Will Not Fix

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Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in source package debootstrap

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