On Saturday 21 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > In my opinion debootstrap shouldn't work differently inside of Debian > so I think we shouldn't use dpkg-deb for this. Even though it would > make our life easier giving us "new features" for free it also makes > much more difficult to spot possible missing features when using it in > foreign distributions and I believe this is something we ought to > support well.
That was my initial reaction as well. One thing that could count against that is that in Debian Installer dpkg-deb is not available either, which would probably ensure sufficient testing of that path. I should IMO be agreed that debootstrap should never rely on features not commonly available using basic *nix tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
