Package: debootstrap
Version: 0.3.0
Severity: minor
The usage information for debootstrap do not mention the
--resolve-deps option. It should.
This is the current output:
% /usr/sbin/debootstrap --help
Usage: debootstrap [OPTION]... <suite> <target> [<mirror> [<script>]]
Bootstrap Debian base system.
--arch set the target architecture (use if no dpkg)
[ --arch powerpc ]
--download-only download packages, but don't perform installation
--print-debs print the packages to be installed, and exit
--unpack-tarball acquire .debs from a tarball instead of http
--boot-floppies used for internal purposes by boot-floppies
--debian-installer used for internal purposes by debian-installer
--help display this help and exit
--include=A,B,C adds specified names to the list of base packages
--exclude=A,B,C removes specified packages from the list
--verbose don't turn off the output of wget
--components=A,B,C use packages from the listed components of the
archive
--variant=X use variant X of the bootstrap scripts
(currently supported variants: buildd,
fakechroot)
--keyring=K check Release files against keyring K
%
A simple check of the script verifies that the option is present in the code:
% grep resol /usr/sbin/debootstrap
--resolve-deps)
required=$(resolve_deps $requiredX)
base=$(resolve_deps $baseX)
%
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20050902-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii wget 1.10.1-1 retrieves files from the web
debootstrap recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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