[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#364517: pbuilder complains that /etc/hosts doesn't exist

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.151
Severity: normal

"pbuilder create --distribution sid" exits with the following error
when /etc/hosts doesn't exist (it seems that this file hasn't been
created by the Debian installation):

E: /etc/hosts does not exist, your setup is insane. fix it
cp: cannot stat `/etc/hosts': No such file or directory

Since this file is not necessary, pbuilder shouldn't give an error.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-20051215
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  cdebootstrap                  0.3.11     Bootstrap a Debian system
ii  coreutils                     5.94-1     The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   2.15.6     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gcc                           4:4.0.3-3  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.10.2-1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.9.19     Scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.5.8      Gives a fake root environment
pn  sudo                          <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information