Re: sbuild on hurd-amd64...

Stéphane Glondu, le lun. 18 août 2025 08:06:34 +0200, a ecrit:
> Le 17/08/2025 à 09:58, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > Ah, the patched opensysusers on hurd-amd64 still had a file in /bin. I
> > > have uploaded an updated package to unreleased, that should show up with
> > > next debian-ports archive run, withint 6h.
> > 
> > Yes, it fixed it.
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > libxml-libxml-perl was posing problem notably, I have prioritized it.
> > > Again, that should get installed by next debian-ports archive pulse,
> > > within 6h.
> > 
> > And that fixed it as well.
> 
> I confirm that I could run a regular debootstrap, with the "brown-tape
> modification" of /usr/share/debootstrap/functions.
> 
> Pristine debootstrap still fails with the error about "dpkg [...] --install"
> with missing package file. Is that situation transient as well?

It is until the issues with a fix in unreleased get uploaded to
unstable.

> Or shouldn't a change be submitted to debootstrap so that it is no
> longer needed to patch it this way?

If somedody gets the time to discuss with debootstrap people, yes.
As in: they need to be convinced that it's the right way to put
extra-suites before the target suite. Possibly they'd rather want to
introduce another option for that case.

Samuel