On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 14:07:04 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Package: debootstrap > Version: 1.0.81 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > in Debian, every binary package implicitly depends on all binary > packages marked as Essential:yes and every source package implicitly > build-depends on the binary package build-essential. Policy ยง4.2 says: > > | it must be possible to build the package and produce working binaries > | on a system with only essential and build-essential packages installed > | and also those required to satisfy the build-time relationships > | (including any implied relationships). > > Currently, programs in Debian that facilitate building source packages > in "clean" environments like sbuild and pbuilder use debootstrap to > create this "minimal" environment. Specifically, they use the buildd > variant provided by debootstrap. > > Unfortunately it seems that in addition to installing the minimum > required packages (all Essential:yes, build-essential and (unfortunately > necessarily) apt), debootstrap also installs all packages marked as > Priority:required (and their transitive dependencies). > This is a transient situation because some Essential packages' dependencies changed. I'd consider this a bug in the archive, not in debootstrap.
Cheers, Julien
