Bug#851226: qemubuilder does not pass options to debootstrap

[Martín Ferrari]

Package: qemubuilder
Version: 0.82
Severity: normal

Hi,

I noticed that when using qemubuilder --create, I can't pass extra command line
options to debootstrap, like I can do with cowbuilder and pbuilder.

Looking at the code, I see qemubuilder is calling debootstrap directly, and it
is silently discarding most options:

  ret=forkexeclp("debootstrap", "debootstrap",
                 "--arch",
                 pc->arch,
                 "--foreign",
                 pc->distribution,
                 pc->buildplace,
                 pc->mirror,
                 NULL);

In general, all options passed with --debootstrapopts are *silently* discarded.
So, for example, this passes the option as expected:

$ cowbuilder --create --debootstrapopts --keyring=/dev/null

Whereas this does not:

$ qemubuilder --create --architecture amd64 --debootstrapopts --keyring=/dev/null

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages qemubuilder depends on:
ii  debootstrap  1.0.87
ii  libc6        2.24-8
ii  libncurses5  6.0+20161126-1
ii  libtinfo5    6.0+20161126-1
ii  pbuilder     0.227
ii  qemu-system  1:2.8+dfsg-1

qemubuilder recommends no packages.

qemubuilder suggests no packages.

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