[Piuparts-devel] Bug#874324: piuparts: experimental distribution doesn't work

[Ross Vandegrift]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.77
Severity: normal

The manpage for piuparts says that experimental can be specified as the
distribution to test against:

 -d name, --distribution=name
    Which Debian distribution to use: a code name (for example jessie,
    stretch or sid) or experimental. The default is sid (=unstable).


But that does not work:

$ sudo piuparts -d experimental <changes>
...
0m0.0s DEBUG: Starting command: ['eatmydata', 'debootstrap', '--variant=minbase', '--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg', '--include=eatmydata', '--components=main,contrib,non-free', 'experimental', '/tmp/tmptp2X0K', 'http://deb.debian.org/debian/']
0m0.0s DUMP:
  E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/experimental
0m0.0s ERROR: Command failed (status=1): ['eatmydata', 'debootstrap', '--variant=minbase', '--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg', '--include=eatmydata', '--components=main,contrib,non-free', 'experimental', '/tmp/tmptp2X0K', 'http://deb.debian.org/debian/']
  E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/experimental

0m0.2s DEBUG: Starting command: ['rm', '-rf', '--one-file-system', '/tmp/tmptp2X0K']
0m0.2s DEBUG: Command ok: ['rm', '-rf', '--one-file-system', '/tmp/tmptp2X0K']
0m0.2s DEBUG: Removed directory tree at /tmp/tmptp2X0K
0m0.2s ERROR: piuparts run ends.

Thanks,
Ross


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (40, 'unstable'), (30, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  debootstrap      1.0.89
ii  debsums          2.2.2
ii  dpkg             1.18.24
ii  lsb-release      9.20161125
ii  lsof             4.89+dfsg-0.1
ii  piuparts-common  0.77
ii  python           2.7.13-2
ii  python-debian    0.1.30

Versions of packages piuparts recommends:
ii  adequate  0.15.1

Versions of packages piuparts suggests:
ii  schroot  1.6.10-3+b1

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