[Pbuilder-maint] Bug#368847: pbuilder: cannot create a base tar.gz for sid inside sarge

[A Mennucc]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.123
Severity: normal

hi

I wanted to create a chroot for building sid packages inside a sarge host;
 pbuilder create 
fails with
 E: Couldn't download slang1a-utf8
 pbuilder: debootstrap failed

I attach the pbuilder configuration

a.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   0.2.45-0.2 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  gcc                           4:3.3.5-3  The GNU C compiler
ii  wget                          1.9.1-12   retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information

-- 
Andrea Mennucc
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# this is your configuration file for pbuilder.
# the file in /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc is the default template.
# /etc/pbuilderrc is the one meant for editing.
#
# read pbuilderrc.5 document for notes on specific options.

BASETGZ=/data/pbuilder/base.tgz
#EXTRAPACKAGES=gcc3.0-athlon-builder
#export DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=athlon
BUILDPLACE=/data/pbuilder/build/
MIRRORSITE=http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
#NONUSMIRRORSITE="http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian-non-US"
#OTHERMIRROR="deb http://www.home.com/updates/ ./"
#export http_proxy=http://your-proxy:8080/
USEPROC=yes
USEDEVPTS=yes
USEDEVFS=no
BUILDRESULT=/data/pbuilder/result/

# specifying the distribution forces the distribution on "pbuilder update"
DISTRIBUTION=sid
#specify the cache for APT 
APTCACHE="/data/pbuilder/aptcache/"
APTCACHEHARDLINK="yes"
REMOVEPACKAGES="lilo"
#HOOKDIR="/usr/lib/pbuilder/hooks"
HOOKDIR=""

# make debconf not interact with user
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"

DEBEMAIL=""

#for pbuilder debuild
BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD="fakeroot"
PBUILDERROOTCMD="sudo"

#default is to build everything. Passed on to dpkg-buildpackage
#DEBBUILDOPTS="-b"
DEBBUILDOPTS=""

#APT configuration files directory
APTCONFDIR=""

# the username and ID used by pbuilder, inside chroot. Needs fakeroot, really
BUILDUSERID=1234
#BUILDUSERNAME=pbuilder

# BINDMOUNTS is a space separated list of things to mount
# inside the chroot.
BINDMOUNTS=""

# Set the debootstrap variant to 'buildd' type.
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS[0]='--variant=buildd'
# unset DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS