[Bug 1716079] Re: debootstrap silently fails when bootstrapping to a directory name with spaces

[Jeremy Soller]

These files are then present:
test case/
test case/debootstrap
test case/debootstrap/debootstrap.log
test case/var
test case/var/lib
test case/var/lib/apt
test case/var/lib/apt/lists
test case/var/lib/apt/lists/partial
test case/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_artful_InRelease
test case/var/cache
test case/var/cache/apt
test case/var/cache/apt/archives
test case/var/cache/apt/archives/partial

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Title:
  debootstrap silently fails when bootstrapping to a directory name with
  spaces

Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I use debootstrap to do minimal installs of Ubuntu and I couldn't
  figure out why debootstrap would silently fail when I pass the name of
  my directory I wanted to install the Ubuntu system in (which, for
  purposes of bug reporting, I'll call "Ubuntu System").

  Running this command will create bootstrap/ and var/ directories in
  "Ubuntu System" but will just silently stop:

   $ sudo debootstrap --arch amd64 artful Ubuntu\ System

  While renaming to UbuntuSystem solves the problem:

   $ sudo debootstrap --arch amd64 artful UbuntuSystem

  Since this was an Artful installation I was doing it from, I tried
  grabbing the version from zesty-updates and it happens there as well.

  The least it could do is be a bit more verbose (I even tried with
  --verbose and it still didn't work)...

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