Bug#531454: pbuilder 0.188 breaks --update in etch chroots

[Junichi Uekawa]

At Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:34:19 +0200,
Nicolas Noirbent wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.187
> Severity: important
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.188
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Following the addition of 'apt-get autoremove' on upgrades (git commit
> ba35d786b9ebb80ffa3722fed38174e0084548cf in the pbuilder.git
> repository) to fix #322649, pbuilder --update cannot be run anymore
> for etch chroots, since etch's apt-get does not know about
> autoremove. Therefore attempting to pbuilder --update (or cowbuilder
> --update) for an etch chroot yields:
> 
> E: Invalid operation autoremove

Do we still really need etch support?