Bug#649190: pbuilder: create fails with a package with two versions in a distribution

[Teemu Ikonen]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Teemu Ikonen dixit:
>>IMHO one should be able to create pbuilder roots at any time, hence severity
>>important. Not sure if the bug is in the archive or in pbuilder though.
>
> It’s well known that debootstrap does not handle that. I think, in your
> case, even though the error message occurs after the debootstrap part,
> the problem lies with it. Tentatively reassigning. (Yes, it’s a PITA.)
>
> That being said, it is NOT possible to create a _sid_ chroot at any
> given time, by design. You ought to be able to create a _testing_
> chroot at _almost_ any given time, then upgrade from there, though.

Thanks for the hint. Today creating a sid chroot worked fine, so
apparently the transition is done.

When I had the problem, I also tried running debootstrap by itself and
it seemed to work fine, i.e. no error messages were shown. I did not
test the resulting root fs though.

Best,

Teemu