We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.15 of grml-debootstrap from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:30:37 +0100
Source: grml-debootstrap
Binary: grml-debootstrap
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-debootstrap - wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml
Changes: 
 grml-debootstrap (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
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   * Make sure the passwd command succeeds.
     Thanks, Wolfgang Karall! [Closes: issue363]
Files: 
 57b4244943764b61abfe94b7e6949b28 682 grml optional grml-debootstrap_0.15.dsc
 2b5fea88e0693509c1113cdd2e43298d 44270 grml optional grml-debootstrap_0.15.tar.gz
 3daa21f1bda9d3357dad084493a08bb8 19086 grml optional grml-debootstrap_0.15_all.deb

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