[Bug 2075964] [NEW] debootstrap fails to setup latest oracular

[Stefan Bader]

Public bug reported:

It looks like creating a new chroot via debootstrap fails for oracular
when extracting base-files. Further investigation shows that this is due
to base-files now containing certain directory symlinks which
debootstrap has already set up. The per-series encironment
(/usr/share/debootstrap/scripts), which basically is the same since
Gutsy, changes the tar options to use "-k" which treats the attempt to
replace files as an error.

The change in base-files appears to be: 13.3ubuntu2
...
base-files (13.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Helmut Grohne ]
  * DEP17: Install /usr-merge aliasing symlinks. Closes: #1064459.

To fix this (verified) we could change the "-k" in a new oracular
debootstrap file into "--keep-directory-symlink". Or have it not set
those up.

** Affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

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Title:
  debootstrap fails to setup latest oracular

Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It looks like creating a new chroot via debootstrap fails for oracular
  when extracting base-files. Further investigation shows that this is
  due to base-files now containing certain directory symlinks which
  debootstrap has already set up. The per-series encironment
  (/usr/share/debootstrap/scripts), which basically is the same since
  Gutsy, changes the tar options to use "-k" which treats the attempt to
  replace files as an error.

  The change in base-files appears to be: 13.3ubuntu2
  ...
  base-files (13.3) unstable; urgency=medium

    [ Helmut Grohne ]
    * DEP17: Install /usr-merge aliasing symlinks. Closes: #1064459.

  To fix this (verified) we could change the "-k" in a new oracular
  debootstrap file into "--keep-directory-symlink". Or have it not set
  those up.

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