Bug#960835: Debian Jessie site lists only 4 archs as supported

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Laura Arjona Reina <larjona@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks Holger for caring about this issue.
> A related problem with jessie is that we have 8.11.0 images for all the
> arches, but 8.11.1 images only for the LTS arches.
> 
> see
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/8.11.0/
> and
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/8.11.1/
> 
> So right now many links of the page
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ provide errors.
> 
> I've had a look at your proposal and I agree (thanks!). In addition to
> the changes you propose, I think we need to figure out how to show the
> info in the  debian-installer page so every link works: the ones that
> should point to the (unsupported) 8.11.0 images, and the ones pointing
> to the 8.11.1 images.
> 
> We probably need custom tags for jessie for its arches and release_info
> templates.

Another possible solution would be, to stay at 8.11 with the tags in webwml, 
and solve the rest with symlinks on the image server:

for LTS archs:		symlink from 8.11 to 8.11.1
for non-LTS archs:	symlink from 8.11 to 8.11.0


CC'ing Steve for his 'debian-cd' opinion on this.


Holger


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