[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#991532: vmdb2: Should deprecate/remove qemu-debootstrap step bc it's deprecated

[Diederik de Haas]

Package: vmdb2
Version: 0.22-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-raspi-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

"deprecate qemu-debootstrap" is the primary commit message of:
https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/commit/9899b1723119e57354c5d8e6f68f15ed762bd570
And it change the call to 'debootstrap' itself.
I haven't tried whether that would succeed or not.

So I'd guess that vmdb2 should deprecate it as well.
http://git.liw.fi/vmdb2/commit/vmdb/plugins?id=bc42e2a8e94713dafb4de4546352749354bc80e0
is an upstream commit which does (seem to) add the needed functionality
to the debootstrap call and adds a not to the *documentation*, but
afaict the qemu-debootstrap plugin is still available and doesn't alert
the user of its deprecation.
And I think it should, by at least outputting/logging a warning and
possibly switching to error/fail (over time?).
As I don't think it's actually/fully fixed upstream, I omitted that tag.

CC-ing RPi maintainers as I know it uses a qemu-debootstrap step.

Cheers,
  Diederik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages vmdb2 depends on:
ii  cmdtest         0.32.14.gcdfe14e-2
ii  debootstrap     1.0.123
ii  e2fsprogs       1.46.2-2
ii  kpartx          0.8.5-2
ii  parted          3.4-1
ii  python3         3.9.2-3
ii  python3-jinja2  2.11.3-1
ii  python3-yaml    5.3.1-5
ii  qemu-utils      1:6.0+dfsg-2exp

Versions of packages vmdb2 recommends:
ii  ansible           2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1
ii  dosfstools        4.2-1
ii  qemu-user-static  1:6.0+dfsg-2exp

vmdb2 suggests no packages.

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