Bug#1037946: mmdebstrap: Create /var/lib/dpkg/available for Debian releases <=buster

2023-06-23 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hello, Quoting Guillem Jover (2023-06-14 20:29:17) > > I'm quite certain about the version requirement because I did tests using > > debbisect and using the suggestion below I'm able to create chroots for all > > of unstable since 2006-08-10. > > So just to clarify, old and new dpkg in normal

Bug#1037946: mmdebstrap: Create /var/lib/dpkg/available for Debian releases <=buster

2023-06-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 19:09:35 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Michael Prokop (2023-06-14 17:19:37) > > since version 1.20.0, dpkg no longer creates /var/lib/dpkg/available (see > > #647911). > > I see that the bug talks about 1.20.0 but I've had code creating >

Bug#1037946: mmdebstrap: Create /var/lib/dpkg/available for Debian releases <=buster

2023-06-14 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, * Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues [Wed Jun 14, 2023 at 07:09:35PM +0200]: > Quoting Michael Prokop (2023-06-14 17:19:37) > > since version 1.20.0, dpkg no longer creates /var/lib/dpkg/available (see > > #647911). > > I see that the bug talks about 1.20.0 but I've had code creating >

Bug#1037946: mmdebstrap: Create /var/lib/dpkg/available for Debian releases <=buster

2023-06-14 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Michael Prokop (2023-06-14 17:19:37) > since version 1.20.0, dpkg no longer creates /var/lib/dpkg/available (see > #647911). I see that the bug talks about 1.20.0 but I've had code creating /var/lib/dpkg/available in mmdebstrap for a while and determined that it wasn't necessary

Bug#1037946: mmdebstrap: Create /var/lib/dpkg/available for Debian releases <=buster

2023-06-14 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: mmdebstrap Version: 1.3.5-7 Severity: normal Hi, since version 1.20.0, dpkg no longer creates /var/lib/dpkg/available (see #647911). But on Debian releases until and including buster, dpkg fails to operate with e.g. `dpkg --set-selections`, if /var/lib/dpkg/available doesn't exist: |