The vmdebootstrap maintainer has a strong preference for the package to be
removed from Debian [1].  live-wrapper is the only remaining user.  Pleae
port it to use something else.

Scott K

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907751

Hi Scott,

the "something else" part is the funny one :P. Yes, there are some very
generic alternatives to vmdebootstrap - you might guess them:
* debootstrap
* cdebootstrap

Thats all, downside is that one has to write all the things that
vmdebootstrap provides new - so there are only two chances:
* write all the glue code and the missing parts from the scratch (should
be no problem, it has be done before)
* wait for the successor of vmdebootstrap and write another wrapper
based on a wrapper for debootstrap.

My 2 cent

Alf

PS: If that sounds to negative - sorry, was not my intention. But there
are only two options - make a debian iso wrapper around (c)debootstrap -
it's done in the former sidux/aptosid's f.u.l.l.s.t.o.r.y and is called
pyfll (https://github.com/fullstory/pyfll and
https://github.com/fullstory/python-fll and some other glue packages
(fll-liveinitscripts  and -initramfs) - downside here: It's python2 and
would need to be ported and cleaned up for long time usage in debian.

PPS: The code could be stripped down to the really needed functions for
debian - and should provide the needed interfaces for derivatives.

debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without
requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading .deb
files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory
which can eventually be chrooted into.
Package: cdebootstrap (0.7.7 and others)

cdebootstrap generates systems from scratch for Debian and derivates.

This is implementation is different from debootstrap. It features a
different package selection. The package selection is done according to the
flavour.

Dear submitter,

as the package live-wrapper has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1009282

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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