[15:39] <realtime-neil> cjwatson: I can't find any `Task` field in the `/var/lib/dpkg/status` paragraphs, but I did notice that `grep-dctrl -FPriority "important" /var/lib/dpkg/status` gives me a list of 106 pretty important-looking packages.
[15:41] <cjwatson> You'll need Priority: required too
[15:41] <cjwatson> But I can't help much more here, in the middle of some upgrade firefighting
[15:47] <realtime-neil> understood, see you on the other side
[21:10] <realtime-neil> update: here's what I got working: `debootstrap --print-debs --variant=minbase bionic "$(mktemp -dt target.XXXXXX)" | xargs dpkg --status >./fake/var/lib/dpkg/status`