On Thu 2016-01-21 16:14:30 -0500, jhcha54008 wrote:
> The current version 2.17.2-1 of libfakechroot in jessie is unusable with
> debootstrap
> (#745082). This may be one of the causes of #809410 too.
>
> You may try debirf with fakechroot and libfakechroot version 2.18-1 from
> stretch or
> sid installed.
I've tried this in the past and it worked for me. I've been meaning to
set up the debirf autobuilder to work that way.
> Would it make sense to have version 2.18-1 backported to jessie - or
> included in a coming jessie point release ?
I think getting it in backports at least would be nice, but i dunno
about the getting into a point release. That might not be something
that the release team would be OK with. If you wanted to start with a
backport, that would be a good demonstration, i think.
--dkg
