Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> (2016-09-03):
> clone 836446 -1
> reassign -1 debootstrap
> retitle -1 debootstrap: doesn't support arch-qualified dependencies
> affects -1 libc6-dev
> thanks

Thanks for this.

> On 2016-09-03 11:28, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Package: libc6-dev
> > Version: 2.24-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > The fix for bug #834706 has the side effect that libc6-dev now depends
> > on linux-libc-dev:$arch :
> > 
> > ,----
> > | $ apt-cache show libc6-dev | grep ^Depends
> > | Depends: libc6 (= 2.24-1), libc-dev-bin (= 2.24-1), linux-libc-dev:i386 
> > (>= 4.6.4-1)
> > `----
> > 
> > While dpkg and apt obviously don't have a problem with that, debootstrap
> > cannot cope with it, and "debootstrap --variant=buildd" fails to even
> > download linux-libc-dev.  See the attached log.
> 
> That's definitely a bug in debootstrap. In the future it's more and more
> likely that we'll have arch-qualified dependencies in the bases packages,
> so this has to be fixed. I am therefore cloning and reassigning the bug.

Do you plan to implement a workaround in glibc for now, or should this bug
report (on the debootstrap side) be raised to RC and fixed before we can
think of a new d-i release? (I have no such plan right now, but it might
be nice not to wait too much once linux has migrated).


KiBi.

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