This creates some interesting problems, like upgrade tests failing.
Do you also get an unmerged system having the usr-is-merged package installed? That would explain that upgrades do not work. Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
And yes, upgrading these is not supported.
I don't see any good reason why a chroot created by a (non-buggy version of) sbuild or debootstrap could not be upgraded. We need that to work to be able to test things. Thanks.