Bug#253536: debian-installer: Amd64 kernel updates

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Version: 20040528
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: patch
>> Justification: fails to build from source
>
> Please stop using important as a severity for amd64 packages until amd64
> is an official arch or there is a consensus that it's the right
> severity.

Sorry but that is the consensus within the debian-amd64 team.  Our
current notion of amd64 is "official but not a release architecture
included on ftp.d.o".

>> debian-installer FTBFS because the kernel has been updated a few times
>> and input-modules are now compiled in. Patch attached.
>
> Should I add you back to the d-i project on alioth so you could commit
> such patches yourself?

That would be nice and save you from future bugreports.

> I've (hand-)applied the patch, but it would have been better if it
> included a debian/changelog entry.

Thanks.

MfG
        Goswin