Hi, On 2025-09-13 17:52, [email protected] wrote: > Package: debootstrap > Version: 1.0.141 > Severity: serious > > Dear Maintainer, > > a typical use of debootstrap to create a chroot: > ``` > # debootstrap --arch=amd64 trixie /trixie https://deb.debian.org/debian > ``` > > Leads to a filesystem with the following broken symlinks: > ``` > # find /trixie -xtype l > /trixie/etc/default/locale > /trixie/etc/vconsole.conf > /trixie/etc/mtab > ``` > > This is definitely unexpected and unwanted, and likely in breach of some part > of debian policy (although I cannot find an exact sentence to quote). > > The /etc/default/locale symlink points to /etc/locale.conf which doesn't exist > after a default debootstrap run. /etc/default/locale is an old compatibility > symlink and should be removed anyway. > > The /etc/vconsole.conf symlink points to /etc/default/keyboard, which also > doesn't exist after a default debootstrap run. /etc/default/keyboard is a > debianism that should be removed, and /etc/vconsole.conf is the configuration > file that systemd-based distributions standardize around, and is not a symlink > on such distributions. > > The /etc/mtab is also a very old compatibility symlink that points to > /proc/self/mounts but this broken symlink will likely be harder to agree on > removing. Additionally, unlike the previous two symlinks, /etc/mtab stops > being > a broken symlink if /proc is mounted into the chroot, so it is less of an > issue. > > Please try to find a way of making default run of debootstrap not create > chroots with broken symlinks.
debootstrap doesn't create those symlinks, they are provided by the installed packages. Please report the bugs to the corresponding packages instead. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://aurel32.net
