On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:01:10AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Dear cdebootstrap maintainer:
> >
> > This shouldn't be an issue in sid [...]
>
> Hmm. We usually want bootstrapping programs like this in stable to be able
> to bootstrap the next stable.
>
> If version currently in jessie does not work to bootstrap stretch,
> please consider an upload for stable-proposed-updates to be included
> in the next point release. (AFAIK, this was done with debootstrap).
>
> Thanks.
But that's why fixing this in base-passwd was so great. Old bootstrap
tools just work because they get the fixed package when bootstraping
the next stable.
MfG
Goswin
