Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 23:43:44 +0100, Luk Claes wrote: > >> Junichi Uekawa wrote: >>> It seems like apt is not installed with debootstrap anymore. >>> And it seems to be staying like this. >>> >>> I'm not sure when this happened, but apt used to be >>> build-essential=yes but now it's not. >> Are you saying that build-essential=yes was still in use? >> > Are you saying people didn't check debootstrap before breaking it?
AFAIK it was checked with running debootstrap which still works as expected except for the new variants... > elif doing_variant buildd || doing_variant scratchbox; then > base="$(get_debs Build-Essential: yes)" So these variants introduced a dependency on something that was not documented or guaranteed in the first place. Though I guess the code surrounding it can give us a clue on how to fix it without reintroducing a hack that is not guaranteed to work. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
