[Bug 2024483] Re: Ubuntu links missing or broken in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts

[Keith Maxwell]

I think the relevant item in the changelog is:

>      * Update debootstrap to automatically use the gutsy script by default
>        if the target is an Ubuntu release known to distro-info, eliminating
>        the need to upload debootstrap for each new Ubuntu release.
>      * Add dependency on distro-info, which is part of ubuntu-minimal, for the
>        above
>      * Remove all the old symlinks that are no longer needed.


http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.128+nmu2ubuntu4/changelog

I think that the relevant commit is
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debootstrap/commit/?id=2e6949c9017d7231bc9d927109f2c068d631e3eb

Somehow "automatically" isn't working for me with pbuilder on Jammy. The
exact steps for me are to start an new VM for Jammy 22.04 and run:

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --yes ubuntu-dev-tools
pbuilder-dist jammy create

```

The error message is:

```
Warning: Unknown distribution "jammy". Do you want to continue [y|N]?
```

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Title:
  Ubuntu links missing or broken in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts

Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  debootstrap package does not have links for many Ubuntu versions in
  /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts. In particular, jammy is missing.

  See the file list:

  https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy-updates/all/debootstrap/filelist

  Also, /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/hirsute link points to groovy,
  which is also missing (i.e. hirsute is a broken symlink).

  This breaks pbuilder, which no longer recognizes distro names and
  fails with errors like this:

  Warning: Unknown distribution "jammy". Do you want to continue [y|N]? 
  Aborting as requested.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: debootstrap 1.0.126+nmu1ubuntu0.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-1027.28~22.04.1-lowlatency 5.19.17
  Uname: Linux 5.19.0-1027-lowlatency x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: vtsspp sep5 socperf3 pax nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Tue Jun 20 19:34:53 2023
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-01 (2971 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: debootstrap
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-05-14 (402 days ago)

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