Updated patch attached as I missed to "autoreconf" in the former patch. I stripped it down to the minimal update.
Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
diff -Nru cdebootstrap-0.6.3/debian/changelog cdebootstrap-0.6.3+nmu1/debian/changelog --- cdebootstrap-0.6.3/debian/changelog 2014-07-31 20:49:16.000000000 +0200 +++ cdebootstrap-0.6.3+nmu1/debian/changelog 2014-11-08 09:22:17.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +cdebootstrap (0.6.3+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Restore ability to debootstrap old Debian releases like lenny/etch where + dpkg doesn't know xz compressed data.tar by ensuring the shipped .deb + are built with -Zgzip. + + -- Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:21:22 +0100 + cdebootstrap (0.6.3) unstable; urgency=medium * Make all mounts private, so that we don't leak mounts. diff -Nru cdebootstrap-0.6.3/helper/Makefile.am cdebootstrap-0.6.3+nmu1/helper/Makefile.am --- cdebootstrap-0.6.3/helper/Makefile.am 2012-05-17 23:15:04.000000000 +0200 +++ cdebootstrap-0.6.3+nmu1/helper/Makefile.am 2014-11-08 09:23:37.000000000 +0100 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ $(MAKE) -C $(PACKAGE) package DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/temp-$(PACKAGE) root-%: - dpkg-deb --build temp-$(PACKAGE) $(PACKAGE).deb + dpkg-deb -Zgzip --build temp-$(PACKAGE) $(PACKAGE).deb clean-local: rm -rf $(foreach package,$(packages),temp-$(package)) diff -Nru cdebootstrap-0.6.3/helper/Makefile.in cdebootstrap-0.6.3+nmu1/helper/Makefile.in --- cdebootstrap-0.6.3/helper/Makefile.in 2014-07-31 20:18:21.000000000 +0200 +++ cdebootstrap-0.6.3+nmu1/helper/Makefile.in 2014-11-08 10:21:11.000000000 +0100 @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ $(MAKE) -C $(PACKAGE) package DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/temp-$(PACKAGE) root-%: - dpkg-deb --build temp-$(PACKAGE) $(PACKAGE).deb + dpkg-deb -Zgzip --build temp-$(PACKAGE) $(PACKAGE).deb clean-local: rm -rf $(foreach package,$(packages),temp-$(package))

