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

[Ken Sharp]

Well, it's taken me hours of recursing through functions but I got there
in the end.

Attached patch works in Focal, Jammy and Noble. There's an additional
failure in Bionic but that'll have to stay unless someone really needs
it.

I'll submit the patch where it needs to go (including upstream).

** Patch added: "spaces_in_debootstrap.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdebootstrap/+bug/1716079/+attachment/5743247/+files/spaces_in_debootstrap.patch

** Changed in: debootstrap (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ken Sharp (kennybobs)

** Tags removed: artful zesty
** Tags added: bionic focal patch

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

Status in cdebootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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