I used debootstrap today as I needed to test an Ubuntu based Docker container using Podman on FreeBSD 14.3 with Linux compatibility enabled. The command I used was:

  $ debootstrap --arch="amd64" noble /compat/ubuntu

It fails complaining that there is no script for 'noble'. The majority of the Ubuntu scripts in /usr/local/share/debootstrap/scripts are symlinked to one script, 'gutsy'.

Symlinks are missing for the following Ubuntu version codenames. 

artful
bionic
cosmic
disco
eoan
focal
groovy
hirsute
impish
jammy
kinetic
lunar
mantic
noble
oracular
plucky

If there are no plans to update debootstrap on every new Ubuntu release, can it at least be updated to acknowledge LTS versions every couple of years?

I updated the missing links using the following shell script run as root:

#!/bin/sh
ubuntu_codenames="artful\
 bionic\
 cosmic\
 disco\
 eoan\
 focal\
 groovy\
 hirsute\
 impish\
 jammy\
 kinetic\
 lunar\
 mantic\
 noble\
 oracular\
 plucky"
cd /usr/local/share/debootstrap/scripts
for codename in $ubuntu_codenames; do
  echo "${codename}"
  if ! [ -L "${codename}" ]; then
    ln -s gutsy ${codename}
  fi
done
ls -l
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