Your message dated Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:23:53 +0530
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and subject line Re: Bug#1112377: pbuilder: qemu-debootstrap does not exist,
install or change DEBOOTSTRAP option
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regarding pbuilder: qemu-debootstrap does not exist, install or change
DEBOOTSTRAP option
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Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.231.1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
When attempting to create a pbuilder image for a foreign architecture,
it fails in qemu-debootstrap because package qemu-user-static is
deprecated.
```
❯ sudo DIST=sid ARCH=arm64 pbuilder create
I: Distribution is sid.
I: Current time: Fri Aug 29 15:00:14 IST 2025
I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1756459814
I: Building the build environment
I: running qemu-debootstrap
E: qemu-debootstrap does not exist, install or change DEBOOTSTRAP option
W: Aborting with an error
I: cleaning the build env
I: removing directory /var/tmp/Debian-Build/Build/669001 and its subdirectories
```
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (991, 'testing-security'), (990, 'testing'), (500,
'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii debootstrap 1.0.141
ii dpkg-dev 1.22.21
ii mount 2.41.1-1
Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii devscripts 2.25.19
ii eatmydata 131-2
ii fakeroot 1.37.1.2-1
ii iproute2 6.16.0-1
ii net-tools 2.10-1.3
ii sudo 1.9.17p2-1
Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii cowdancer 0.90
pn gdebi-core <none>
-- debconf information:
* pbuilder/rewrite: false
pbuilder/nomirror:
* pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://deb.debian.org/debian
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, 2025-08-29 at 21:36 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2025, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>
> > it fails in qemu-debootstrap because package qemu-user-static is
> > deprecated.
>
> qemu-user-static has been renamed to just qemu-user.
>
> But since the last security update, it cannot be used to
> build foreign-arch packages in chroots any more *anyway*
> either, unless the local admin manually reverts what the
> security fix changed in the binfmt-misc configuration.
>
I think it was my mistake. I confused myself on qemu-debootstrap and
qemu-user-static. Possibly because package qemu-user-static is what
provides tool qemu-debootstrap.
Removing the package and the tool's reference in configuration files,
pbuilder is working fine doing builds for armhf in qemu user emulation
mode. I do have the qemu-user-binfmt package installed.
Thanks,
Ritesh
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