Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.128+nmu2devuan2

invoking
# debootstrap excalibur /mnt/devuan6

leads to output of in terminal

W: Failure trying to run: chroot "/mnt/devuan6" dpkg --force-overwrite
--force-confold --skip-same-version --install
/var/cache/apt/archives/adduser_3.137_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-175_all.deb
W: See /mnt/devuan6/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly
the package cron-daemon-common is at fault)


and relevant lines from /mnt/devuan6/debootstrap/debootstrap.log are


Preparing to unpack .../archives/adduser_3.137_all.deb ...
Unpacking adduser (3.137) ...
Preparing to unpack .../cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-175_all.deb ...
Unpacking cron-daemon-common (3.0pl1-175) ...
Setting up adduser (3.137) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cron-daemon-common:
cron-daemon-common depends on systemd | systemd-standalone-sysusers |
systemd-sysusers; however:
Package systemd is not installed.
Package systemd-standalone-sysusers is not installed.
Package systemd-sysusers is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package cron-daemon-common (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
cron-daemon-common


system running debootstrap is deadalus

# uname -a
Linux pavilion1 6.1.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.38-4
(2023-08-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux