On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 00:17:16 +1000, 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? > Not any more than it is a rationale for any other package currently uploaded to unstable and targetted at wheezy to get its build-dependencies from testing? I.e. probably not...
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