symptom:
when etc/debootstrap/etc/... were symlinks:
/bin/chroot-script: line 52: /etc/apt/sources.list: Too many levels of symbolic links
justification, quoting from mlist:
"please add '--dereference' whenever 'cp' files from host into chroot
system. I want to symlink them into /etc/debootstrap/etc/ instead of copying
them over."