Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-08 Thread Adam Borowski
Control: reassign -1 base-passwd Control: retitle -1 makes base-files fail to install during bootstrap Control: found -1 3.5.36 Control: fixed -1 3.5.37 On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 07:47:42PM +, Michael Tautschnig wrote: First of all thanks to everyone for the efforts to fix these problems. It

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Guillem, KiBi, (It may be worthwhile taking a moment to read the bug logs of #766459 and #767999.) On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 8:34:49 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Control: severity -1 serious Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Correct fix breaks bogus assumptions in old debootstrap I'd say the bug

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm going to revert the commit above (only in 1.17.x, it will be kept in 1.18.x), because it is very minimal, just reintroduces again an unnecessary package queue stage, and such regression is acceptable if it makes buggy bootstrappers work again. But

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: To stick with Santiago's earlier wording, we are now shooting the next messenger (this time dpkg, after first working hard against base-files). Indeed. I would not like to see dpkg as the next victim of this problem. Being able to bootstrap jessie

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es (2014-11-07): On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Michael Tautschnig wrote: To stick with Santiago's earlier wording, we are now shooting the next messenger (this time dpkg, after first working hard against base-files). Indeed. I would not like to see dpkg as the next

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 08:30:39 +, Michael Tautschnig wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 8:34:49 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: Control: severity -1 serious Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Correct fix breaks bogus assumptions in old debootstrap I'd say the bug title ought to be Correct fix

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-07 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hello Guillem, All, First of all thanks to everyone for the efforts to fix these problems. It seems we've now got fixes in place both in (c)debootstrap and base-passwd, so hopefully we're fine for the next few releases... :-) On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 17:38:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Fri,

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 -patch Control: reassign -1 dpkg 1.17.21 Control: affects -1 debootstrap [ Context: debootstrap/wheezy is now unable to debootstrap either jessie or sid. ] Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-11-05): I'm not calling Adam's proposal insane. His proposal is just wrong. What I

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: severity -1 serious Control: retitle -1 dpkg: Correct fix breaks bogus assumptions in old debootstrap On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 02:33:48 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-11-05): But, from where I stand, several developers were actually checking facts

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 767999 debootstrap thanks Adam Borowski, STOP this insanity! STOP IT! (And you should really read the full logs for Bug#766459 to understand this instead of killing the messenger The guilty party for this bug is either base-files or base-passwd. Wrong. It's debootstrap

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Santiago, On Mittwoch, 5. November 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: Adam Borowski, STOP this insanity! STOP IT! It seems to me that you are quite upset about this bug, yet I fail to see why, really. A bug is nothing bad, it's just an id to track things... Also, you ignored a quite significant

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:04:55AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 5. November 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: Adam Borowski, STOP this insanity! STOP IT! It seems to me that you are quite upset about this bug, yet I fail to see why, really. Yes, I am upset, because I've explained

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Santiago Vila sanv...@unex.es (2014-11-05): Yes, I am upset, because I've explained too many times already why it is not a bug in base-files, and why trying to fix it in base-files would be a complete and ugly hack, and yet people keep filing bugs about base-files, killing the messenger, so to

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign -1 debootstrap thanks On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 01:05:11AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: Package: base-files Version: 7.10 Severity: grave W: Failure trying to run: chroot /tmp/unstable/. dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.10_i386.deb

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 767999 debootstrap thanks People who do not understand the essential flag keep filing bugs against base-files. Kind debootstrap maintainers: I think it's about time that you make an upload for stable fixing this. I've heard that the fix is already in git, so apparently it's just a

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-04 Thread Adam Borowski
Control: retitle -1 base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap Control: reassign -1 base-files Control: found -1 base-files/7.6 Control: tags -1 +patch (TL;DR: there's a working patch attached) On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:04:14AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at

Bug#767999: base-files: fails to install with pre-jessie debootstrap

2014-11-03 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: base-files Version: 7.10 Severity: grave W: Failure trying to run: chroot /tmp/unstable/. dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_7.10_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.36_i386.deb While #766459 fixed debootstrapping with jessie's debootstrap,