Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.141 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer,
a typical use of debootstrap to create a chroot: ``` # debootstrap --arch=amd64 trixie /trixie https://deb.debian.org/debian ``` Leads to a filesystem with the following broken symlinks: ``` # find /trixie -xtype l /trixie/etc/default/locale /trixie/etc/vconsole.conf /trixie/etc/mtab ``` This is definitely unexpected and unwanted, and likely in breach of some part of debian policy (although I cannot find an exact sentence to quote). The /etc/default/locale symlink points to /etc/locale.conf which doesn't exist after a default debootstrap run. /etc/default/locale is an old compatibility symlink and should be removed anyway. The /etc/vconsole.conf symlink points to /etc/default/keyboard, which also doesn't exist after a default debootstrap run. /etc/default/keyboard is a debianism that should be removed, and /etc/vconsole.conf is the configuration file that systemd-based distributions standardize around, and is not a symlink on such distributions. The /etc/mtab is also a very old compatibility symlink that points to /proc/self/mounts but this broken symlink will likely be harder to agree on removing. Additionally, unlike the previous two symlinks, /etc/mtab stops being a broken symlink if /proc is mounted into the chroot, so it is less of an issue. Please try to find a way of making default run of debootstrap not create chroots with broken symlinks.
