Historically we tried to have all necessary information
in bug reports, such as version of certain packages used
during the build.
In reality, the only interesting package is debootstrap
on the host system - everything else is taken up from
the mirror from within the chroot and is noted in the
build log.
Users building non-chrooted will have to collect their
information by hand anyway, so it's better to remove
anything but debootstrap.
debootstrap is the official tool to bootstrap debian,
cdebootstrap has had the one or other bug making it
broken for times during the release cycles.
The extra effort of supporting both debootstrap
and cdebootstrap is hardly worth it since the bootstrap
stage is cached anyway.
extlinux configuration for the bootable image is installed to
/boot/extlinux, matching the extlinux-install script in Debian.
From the configuration point of view it's still called "syslinux",
the same as the rest of the syslinux family (pxelinux, isolinux etc.)
Daniel Baumann
Simon McVittie
Daniel Baumann
Colin Watson