Hi Thomas, thanks for pushing this forward :) .
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 19:53:46 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > now that a new set of SYSLINUX packages is announced by > (...) > what to do with this bug report ? > Re-assign to package "syslinux" and then close it ? Well, that bug is only solved once we have CD images that are no longer affected by this bug. The first weekly testing images will be available earliest in two weeks time (since I've set the testing migration to 10 days and assuming no new RC bugs are discovered during that period). After that we still need to decide whether we also want to fix this for the next point release. If I understand the CD build process correctly, the images for the next point release will only get the fix if we also update syslinux in stretch. > Is there a way to obtain that package and extract the file with > vanilla tools which are not debian-specific ? Well, deb package can be downloaded from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/syslinux/isolinux_6.03+dfsg1-1_all.deb though the link will no longer work after a newer version of syslinux is uploaded to unstable. Since deb is an ar-archive (containing more archives), you can extract the file as follows on any *nix systems which have ar and tar commands: ar p isolinux_6.03+dfsg1-1_all.deb data.tar.xz | \ tar xJOf - ./usr/lib/ISOLINUX/isohdpfx.bin > isohdpfx.bin Regards Lukas