[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1023420: libvirt FTBFS: missing Build-Depends: mount

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Andrea,

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 12:34:40PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Can you please tell me how you created the very minimal chroot in
> which you reproduced the issue? A fresh one created today with
> cowbuilder still contains mount, and even adding
> 
>   DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--variant=minbase"
> 
> to pbuilderrc doesn't change this. I just want to make sure there are
> no other commands that need the same treatment.

I'm using mmdebstrap rather than debootstrap. While debootstrap's
--variant=minbase includes all "Priority: required" packages, you still
have to depend on them according to policy. mmdebstrap provides two
smaller variants "essential", which really is only essential packages
and "apt", which includes the apt package in addition to essential
packages. The apt variant is the one I use most often. It recently got
rid of adduser, which also exhibits bugs here and there. These days,
sbuild can deal with such minimal chroots.

Helmut