Bug#916716: live-wrapper: Replace vmdebootstrap usage with alternative

2018-12-17 Thread Richard Lell
These are the two choices. Which is better suited and has the dependencies least conflicting? Is it possible to rewrite the packages spoken of above in Python3? Package: debootstrap (1.0.111) debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of

Bug#916716: live-wrapper: Replace vmdebootstrap usage with alternative

2018-12-17 Thread Alf Gaida
Hi Scott, the "something else" part is the funny one :P. Yes, there are some very generic alternatives to vmdebootstrap - you might guess them: * debootstrap * cdebootstrap Thats all, downside is that one has to write all the things that vmdebootstrap provides new - so there are only two

Bug#916716: live-wrapper: Replace vmdebootstrap usage with alternative

2018-12-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: live-wrapper Version: 0.7 Severity: important The vmdebootstrap maintainer has a strong preference for the package to be removed from Debian [1]. live-wrapper is the only remaining user. Pleae port it to use something else. Scott K [1]