[Whonix-devel] Bug#940188: compatibility with grml-debootstrap, pbuilder and cowbuilder

Fri Sep 13 19:45:00 CEST 2019

Package: mmdebstrap
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: whonix-devel at whonix.org

Dear maintainer,

could you please make mmdebstrap compatible with grml-debootstrap,
pbuilder and cowbuilder?

These applications support setting a custom debootstrap but mmdebstrap
cannot yet serve as a drop-in replacement for debootstrap since its
command line interface is different.

Dunno if becoming a debootstrap drop-in replacement is one of your
goals. In case it is, just reporting the incomparability.

At the moment I am wrenching a custom wrapper in between which is not great.

https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/help-steps/pbuilder-debootstrap-command-filter

That wrapper might also give clues what kind of incompatibilities were
found.

Kind regards,
Patrick