Bug#1051721: simple-cdd: Missing package zstd for default image build on bookworm

[Sietze van Buuren]

Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.6.9
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: s.van....@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

When building a default bookworm dist image using the command `build-simple-cdd`
on a bookworm system, simple-cdd is able to successfully build the
image. However, when using this image to install a new system, the installer
complains that it can't find the package `zstd` and refuses to continue.

I built the image with simple-cdd in a docker environment
(debian:bookworm-slim).

Just adding the package `zstd` (and nothing else) results in a working
installer.

Might it be, that for bookworm the package `zstd` needs to be addeed to the
downloads file of the default profile
(i.e. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/simple-cdd/-/blob/master/profiles/default.downloads)?

Thanks for looking into this issue.

Regards,

Sietze


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'focal-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-25-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages simple-cdd depends on:
ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3+b1
ii debian-cd 3.1.35
ii lsb-release 11.1.0
ii python3 3.9.2-3
ii python3-simple-cdd 0.6.9
ii reprepro 5.3.0-1.2
ii rsync 3.2.3-4+deb11u1
ii wget 1.21-1+deb11u1

Versions of packages simple-cdd recommends:
ii dose-distcheck 6.0.1-2

Versions of packages simple-cdd suggests:
ii qemu-system-x86 [qemu-kvm] 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2

-- no debconf information

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Control: merge 1043571 1051721

On 2023-09-11, Sietze van Buuren wrote:
> When building a default bookworm dist image using the command `build-simple-cdd`
> on a bookworm system, simple-cdd is able to successfully build the
> image. However, when using this image to install a new system, the installer
> complains that it can't find the package `zstd` and refuses to continue.
>
> I built the image with simple-cdd in a docker environment
> (debian:bookworm-slim).
>
> Just adding the package `zstd` (and nothing else) results in a working
> installer.
>
> Might it be, that for bookworm the package `zstd` needs to be addeed to the
> downloads file of the default profile
> (i.e. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/simple-cdd/-/blob/master/profiles/default.downloads)?

If that indeed fixes it, that sounds like a simple enough workaround
worth applying, thanks!

Will try and test this and get a fix uploaded. Will have to first upload
to unstable/sid, and then another upload to stable-proposed-updates to
get this fixed in bookworm.


live well,
vagrant