Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.231.1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Dear Maintainer,

When attempting to create a pbuilder image for a foreign architecture,
it fails in qemu-debootstrap because package qemu-user-static is
deprecated.

```
❯ sudo DIST=sid ARCH=arm64 pbuilder create
I: Distribution is sid.
I: Current time: Fri Aug 29 15:00:14 IST 2025
I: pbuilder-time-stamp: 1756459814
I: Building the build environment
I: running qemu-debootstrap
E: qemu-debootstrap does not exist, install or change DEBOOTSTRAP option
W: Aborting with an error
I: cleaning the build env 
I: removing directory /var/tmp/Debian-Build/Build/669001 and its subdirectories
```

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (991, 'testing-security'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 
'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 
'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.91
ii  debootstrap            1.0.141
ii  dpkg-dev               1.22.21
ii  mount                  2.41.1-1

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts  2.25.19
ii  eatmydata   131-2
ii  fakeroot    1.37.1.2-1
ii  iproute2    6.16.0-1
ii  net-tools   2.10-1.3
ii  sudo        1.9.17p2-1

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
ii  cowdancer   0.90
pn  gdebi-core  <none>

-- debconf information:
* pbuilder/rewrite: false
  pbuilder/nomirror:
* pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://deb.debian.org/debian

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