Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.123 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I ran into an issue when I was using debootstrap in order to setup a chroot- environment. I: Retrieving InRelease I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release signature (key id 6D33866EDD8FFA41C0143AEDDCC9EFBF77E11517) I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Checking component main on http://deb.debian.org/debian... E: Couldn't find these debs: 48477576 I was surprised to see that "48477576". I expected to get the name of the package that was causing this, instead of a number. I dug deeper to see what's causing this and I was surprised when I found out that the parameter '--include=<tab>package' that was passed to debootstrap was causing this. Here's a reproducer (can be copied into bash). It fetches the current debian stable for amd64 with "gzip" as an extra package. (that $(printf \\t) is in this example, here so the "tab" won't get lost when copying&pasting) --- reproducer.sh one-liner --- /usr/sbin/debootstrap --foreign "--include=$(printf \\t)gzip" --arch=amd64 stable "$(mktemp -d)" "http://deb.debian.org/debian"; --- reproducer.sh EOF --- Since I now know what to look for, I edited /usr/share/debootstrap/functions to remove tabs from the $leftoverdebs in the download_release() function. --- remove-tabs-from-include.patch --- --- /usr/share/debootstrap/functions.orig 2021-03-13 17:43:18.058708393 +0100 +++ /usr/share/debootstrap/functions 2021-03-13 17:43:39.792093090 +0100 @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ download_release () { leftoverdebs="$*" # Fix possible duplicate package names, which would screw up counts: - leftoverdebs=$(printf "$leftoverdebs"|tr ' ' '\n'|sort -u|tr '\n' ' ') + leftoverdebs=$(printf "$leftoverdebs"|tr -d '\t'|tr ' ' '\n'|sort -u|tr '\n' ' ') numdebs=$(printf "$leftoverdebs"|wc -w) for s in $SUITE $EXTRA_SUITES; do --- remove-tabs-from-include.patch EOF --- This "fixed" the issue for me. But I know that this is quick and dirty. Cheers, Christian -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, powerpc, mips, arm64 Kernel: Linux 5.12.0-rc2-wt+ (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.21-1+b1 Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii arch-test 0.17-1 ii debian-archive-keyring 2021.1.1 ii gnupg 2.2.27-1 Versions of packages debootstrap suggests: pn squid-deb-proxy-client <none> pn ubuntu-archive-keyring <none> -- debconf information excluded -- debsums errors found: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "C.UTF-8", LANG = "en_DE.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
