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

[Steve Langasek]

The symlinks were dropped in the update because they were no longer
necessary for debootstrap's internal use.  I didn't count on the fact
that the various callers of debootstrap would hard-code the use of the
script argument.

We should fix this by restoring the symlinks that were dropped in the
SRU.

Going forward, we will NOT be doing SRUs to add NEW symlinks to
debootstrap.  So to use tools on existing stable series to bootstrap
newer series, those tools will need to be fixed to not hard-code the
script argument.  We have updated mk-sbuild for this.  I have marked the
pbuilder tasks on this bug "Won't fix" because I do not expect anyone to
put in the effort to do an SRU of this universe package.  But if someone
does, it would be acceptable under SRU policy.

** Changed in: debootstrap (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Also affects: pbuilder (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pbuilder (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu Jammy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pbuilder (Ubuntu Jammy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu Kinetic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pbuilder (Ubuntu Kinetic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debootstrap (Ubuntu Lunar)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pbuilder (Ubuntu Lunar)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: pbuilder (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: pbuilder (Ubuntu Jammy)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: pbuilder (Ubuntu Kinetic)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: pbuilder (Ubuntu Lunar)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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

Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in pbuilder package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in debootstrap source package in Focal:
  Confirmed
Status in pbuilder source package in Focal:
  Won't Fix
Status in debootstrap source package in Jammy:
  Confirmed
Status in pbuilder source package in Jammy:
  Won't Fix
Status in debootstrap source package in Kinetic:
  Confirmed
Status in pbuilder source package in Kinetic:
  Won't Fix
Status in debootstrap source package in Lunar:
  Confirmed
Status in pbuilder source package in Lunar:
  Won't Fix

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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