Package: debootstrap Version: 0.3.1 Severity: minor debootstrap's change to manage its own log file causes some problems for d-i.
d-i contains messages that tell the user to look at vt 3 or /var/log/messages, where we redirect stderr, including debootstrap's. Of course we can changes those messages, but now they need to direct the user to different log locations depending on how well debootstrap succeeded or failed, and users will not just be able to flip to a tty to see debootstrap output for debugging. Also, our installation report framework does things like copy /var/log from the installer to a floppy, or run a web server to export those logs, to aid in debugging failed installs. This will need more special purpose code to also save/export the various new deootstrap log files. I'd be in favour of either making --debian-installer continue to log to stderr, or adding a new switch to get that behavior back. Logging to the log file too would be ok, but redundant, since d-i copies its logs to /target/var/log/installer/ at the end. -- see shy jo
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