Note: dpkg 1.17.21 has migrated to testing, and, as a result, the current debootstrap in wheezy is now unable to create chroots for both jessie and sid (previously it was only sid and jessie still worked).
As of today, in jessie we still have base-files 7.6. So, as I suspected, the recent changes in dpkg are the most likely reason why this problem didn't bite us before, not the changes I did in base-files 7.7. I hope this might definitely clarify some past misunderstandings about this problem. Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org