Package: debconf Version: 1.5.91 Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, I recently ran into an issue with installing a Debian 13 system using the "minbase" variant of debootstrap, which only includes the absolute core packages necessary. During the "Installing base system" step of d-i, installation eventually fails when busybox is installed. I checked the logs, and it appears that the issue lies with an inability to load the libtext-iconv-perl package. https://gist.github.com/Nihlus/37a53d8d62d1c0a8884b72cd84cde477 I dug into the code behind this and narrowed it down to a call from d-i to debconf-apt-progress in /bin/apt-install, which executes ERRCODE=0 in-target sh -c "debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- \ apt-get $apt_opts install $packages" || ERRCODE=$? This returns an error code of 255, which promptly fails the whole installation. Normally, Debian installations do not use minbase, which means that debconf-i18n will be installed (as it is Priority: important). This brings in libtext-iconv-perl as a transitive dependency. However, if a minbase installation is attempted, only Priority: essential packages and apt are installed. None of these carry a dependency on libtext-iconv-perl, and we hit whatever is causing this error to bubble up to d-i. The easiest way to reproduce this is by preseeding the Debian installer with the following value: d-i base-installer/debootstrap_variant string minbase This will force d-i to use the minbase variant, and installation will fail during the initial system bootstrapping. The issue can be worked around by including libtext-iconv-perl as an explicit additional package (also with preseeding). d-i base-installer/includes string libtext-iconv-perl -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.27-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled debconf depends on no packages. Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt 3.0.2 ii apt-utils 3.0.2 ii debconf-i18n 1.5.91 Versions of packages debconf suggests: pn debconf-doc <none> pn debconf-kde-helper <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn libgtk3-perl <none> pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> ii perl 5.40.1-3 ii whiptail 0.52.25-1 -- debconf information: debconf/frontend: Dialog debconf/priority: high debconf-apt-progress/preparing: debconf-apt-progress/title: debconf-apt-progress/media-change: debconf-apt-progress/info:
