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Re: Bug#927255: powerpc-utils is uninstallable





On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 9:48 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Hi Lance!

On 12/1/22 17:54, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Unfortunately this is a major issue when trying to get a system installed using the
> debian-installer. I am trying to support ppc64 (Big Endian) for our users, and Debian
> is the only platform that still provides a modern ppc64 environment.

Thanks for the praise ;-). It is possible partially through the support of OSUOSL ;-).

> I've created my own netboot install images using the latest sid environment, and I am
> unable to work around this and get a system installed. While the solution above works
> for debootstrap itself, it makes it impossible to get a system installed.
>
> Could you change pmac-utils to Suggests instead of Depends? That way it should get things
> working again. AFAIK this isn't a hard requirement anymore on ppc64 at least.

Yes, I will demote the package to Suggests or even remove it. I don't think it's necessary
anymore.

Any idea when you'll be able to get this pushed out?

Thanks!

--
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab 

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