[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#782532: sbuild: Error creating ubuntu chroot: debfoster not found

[Dima Kogan]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.65.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi. Look:

   dima at shorty:~$ sudo sbuild-createchroot --make-sbuild-tarball=/var/lib/sbuild/trusty-amd64.tar.gz trusty /tmp/xxx http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu 

    mkdir /tmp/xxx
    I: SUITE: trusty
    I: TARGET: /tmp/xxx
    I: MIRROR: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
    I: Running debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=buildd --verbose --include=fakeroot,build-essential,debfoster --components=main --resolve-deps trusty /tmp/xxx http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
    W: Cannot check Release signature; keyring file not available /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg
    I: Retrieving Release 
    I: Retrieving Packages 
    I: Validating Packages 
    I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
    I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
    I: Found additional base dependencies: libfakeroot 
    I: Checking component main on http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...
    E: Couldn't find these debs: debfoster
    E: Error running debootstrap at /usr/sbin/sbuild-createchroot line 220.


Including debfoster is hard-coded in sbuild-createchroot. This can by
worked around by passing --exclude=debfoster to sbuild-createchroot. The
error possibly is due to the contents of the ubuntu mirror, but this is
a common use case, and it shouldn't fail. If it cannot be fixed in
sbuild, then at least a note on the wiki would be good. In any case,
this bug report will now be indexed by search engines, so in itself
it'll be helpful.