Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.91 Severity: normal Hi,
this is related to #838388. In my filter bubble, it is a rather common idiom to pre-load the debootstrap directory with some contents, for example a /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d file or the eatmydata lib if one wants eatmydata to be effective already during the deboostrap process. This is no longer possible when the set of pre-loaded contents contains files that are also in a package, since the unpacking step bombs out instead of overwriting the file. The eatmydata case is particularly annoying since not having eatmydata in the chroot from the very beginning will increase the run time of debootstrap noticeably. Please consider implementing the usrmerge process a bit less invasive. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.4-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.19.1-4 Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5 ii gnupg 2.1.18-8 debootstrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information