Hi Nicolas,
as discussed in Hamburg, I propose to use mmdebstrap to create more
minimal chroots for piuparts:
mmdebstrap --variant=apt
As long as #1125789 is still open we also have to add --include=passwd.
As piuparts can't test packages that are already installed in the
chroot, this would allow more packages to be tested. This would also
allow running everything as a normal user without root rights.
Even more, we could create the chroot on the fly:
piuparts --bootstrapcmd="mmdebstrap --skip=check/empty"
Cheers Jochen