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vmdebootstrap (1.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium
vmdebootstrap is not going to be included in the release of Debian
buster. Please switch to another tool for building Debian system
images automatically, such as vmdb2, debos, or FAI. You have until
September, 2018.
The reason for this is that vmdebootstrap has a software architecture
that makes it difficult to modify or test. Many desirable changes to
vmdebootstrap are so hard to make that its author doesn't even want to
contemplate them. Worse, fixing some of the known bugs are difficult.
Because of this, the vmdebootstrap upstream author and Debian package
maintainer will get vmdebootstrap removed from Debian before the
buster release. Bugs in vmdebootstrap are unlikely to be fixed, unless
they have no workaround and threaten user data or are a security
problem.
vmdb2 is the second attempt by the vmdebootstrap author to write a
tool for building Debian system images. It is much more flexible than
the first attempt, and much easier to modify. Unfortunately, the same
things that make vmdebootstrap hard to maintain make it hard to add
backwards compatibility to vmdb2 for command line and configuration
file syntax. vmdb2 is not a drop-in replacement. You'll have to re-do
all the image creation work with vmdb2.
There are many other tools for the same purpose. You may want to
compare several and pick the one you like best.
-- Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:48:56 +0200
vmdebootstrap (1.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* extlinux support is now deprecated. Grub to become default.
extlinux relies on external components to install the bootloader
inside the image which prevents vmdebootstap building the same image
on different systems. For this reason, extlinux is deprecated and
the default will change in a future release to disabling extlinux
and using grub by default.
-- Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 15:05:58 +0100
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