Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2021-05-05 19:37:16)
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-05-05 18:56:56)
> > > Though I'm afraid this is not a change that will make it unto bullseye
> > > unless you have special friends in the release team. ;)
> > As I understand it, packages still get accepted when a) they are non-core 
> > and
> > b) has a testsuite - after a 20-day migration delay.
> 
> According to https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html you are
> right!
> 
> Feel free to NMU mmdebstrap and put your patch into the packaging git. Reason
> for my unavailability in in Message-ID
> 161288154975.4161408.13592461751760341766@localhost on
> debian-priv...@lists.debian.org.

Sorry, I don't follow d-private, but respect your choice of keeping that 
private.  Just sincerely hope that whatever keeps you away from Debian 
is something pleasant.


> The patch should probably look something like this:
> 
> @@ -5461,10 +5461,8 @@ sub main() {
>          '-c',
>          '--exclude=./dev'
>      );
> -    # tar2sqfs and genext2fs do not support extended attributes
> -    if ($format eq "squashfs") {
> -        warning "tar2sqfs does not support extended attributes";
> -    } elsif ($format eq "ext2") {
> +    # genext2fs does not support extended attributes
> +    if ($format eq "ext2") {
>          warning "genext2fs does not support extended attributes";
>      } else {
>          push @taropts, '--xattrs';

@Benjamin: Will you have the honour?  You seem more expert in using 
mmdebstrap and therefore more likely to catch flaws in this than me...


 - Jonas

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