[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#865432: sbuild --bd-uninstallable-explainer=dose3 should strip foreign essential packages

[Helmut Grohne]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.73.0-4
Severity: wishlist
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: rebootstrap

Hi Josch,

Thank you for adding --bd-uninstallable-explainer to sbuild. It helps a
lot. Maybe we can still improve it though. In general, apt refuses to
cross grade essential packages (with good reason), but dose still
considers such solutions. On bootstrap.debian.net we filter the foreign
packages file removing essential packages before passing it to dose. Can
we do that for sbuild as well?

Helmut