On 06.02.2013 14:17, Anthony Towns wrote:
On 5 February 2013 22:48, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote:
Package: tech-ctte
- the debian-installer source package, which builds the installer
images
for debian's releases, build-depends on syslinux
- the release freeze for wheezy started in June 2012, and is now in
its
final stages
- one of the prerequisites for the release is a release candidate
for
the installer
- the syslinux maintainer uploaded new upstream versions of his
package
to unstable, which were unsuitable for wheezy, in November 2012,
and
again at the end of January 2013
- the latest of these uploads breaks the installer, [...]
Isn't this a rationale for d-i to use the stable builds of syslinux
present in testing (or potentially testing-proposed-updates) rather
than unstable?
It's a build-dependency in the (debian-installer) source package, so
will naturally be pulled from whichever suite that package is being
built in.
I assume it could instead be downloaded from a mirror during the build
process, similarly to udebs, but my understanding was that we were
trying to reduce the use of such mechanisms within the d-i build, rather
than adding more of them.
Regards,
Adam
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