On Wed, 2022-07-27 at 07:14 +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:02:09PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:05:02 +0100 Mark Hindley wrote: > > > It has been suggested that changing the dependency to > > > > > > systemd-standalone-tmpfiles | systemd-tmpfiles > > > > > > would help the packaging system usually find the correct solution and > > > reduce the > > > number of unexpected surprises users are reporting. > > > > This change breaks debootstrap as expected: > > > > +--- > > > W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-attempted up > > > to five times. > > > W: See /tmp/u/unstable/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly > > > the package > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/systemd-standalone-tmpfiles_251.3-1_amd64.deb is > > > at fault) > > +--- > > > > I hope this addresses the question for "evidence and rationale of this > > concern" why I say this is problematic. > > I assume this is the result of running debootstrap with --include > systemd-standalone-tmpfiles?
No, I changed the dependencies of one of the involved packages to the one suggested. But it has the same effect as an explicit --include, i.e., it resulted in debootstrap trying to install systemd-standalone- tmpfiles. Ansgar
