Bug#900925: debootstrap may fail because of arch-test in stretch

[jhcha54008]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.101
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

The latest versions of debootstrap may fail on debian stretch if arch-test is installed.
arch-test version 0.7-1 in stretch doesn't support option -c in use in
debootstrap (>= 1.0.97)

# debootstrap stable mychroot
E: Unable to execute target architecture
1 # echo $?
1
0 # cat mychroot/debootstrap/debootstrap.log
Usage: "arch-test [-n]" or "arch-test [-n] <arch>".

The patch below solved the issue for me (option --version
was added in arch-test version 0.12-1 and option -c was added
in version 0.11-1)

# debootstrap stable mychroot
I: Can't verify that target arch works
[ ... ]
I: Base system installed successfully.
0 # echo $?

0

Regards,
JH Chatenet


--- /usr/sbin/debootstrap
+++ /usr/sbin/debootstrap
@@ -591,8 +591,10 @@
if [ -x /usr/bin/arch-test ] && am_doing_phase second_stage; then
if doing_variant fakechroot; then
ret=0; arch-test "$ARCH" || ret=$?
- else
+ elif arch-test --version > /dev/null 2>&1; then
ret=0; arch-test -c "$TARGET" "$ARCH" || ret=$?
+ else
+ ret=3
fi

case $ret in


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u2

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii arch-test 0.7-1
ii debian-archive-keyring 2017.5
ii gnupg 2.1.18-8~deb9u1

Versions of packages debootstrap suggests:
pn squid-deb-proxy-client <none>
pn ubuntu-archive-keyring <none>

-- no debconf information