Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release
On 02/07/2013 09:31, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Technically d-i point release updates are built in
> "stable-proposed-updates" and build dependencies are satisfied in stable
> (+ s-p-u maybe). Similarly it should be possible to build d-i for wheezy
> in testing-proposed-updates right now (and have build-deps satisfied in
> wheezy). t-p-u is frowned upon for normal packages because the release
> team like the testing packages get in unstable, but in the case of d-i the
> only thing that needs to be tested are the installer images which end up
> on the mirror and not in the package repository (the installer directories
> are shared between wheezy and sid).
>
> That said this was never done yet and we're not sure what dak
> would do with the by-hand archive containing the installer images. Maybe
> some ftpmasters could answer on this point?
Uploading d-i images to wheezy (or t-p-u) should work as far as dak is
concerned. They should end in t-p-u and could be copied from there to
wheezy (dak copy-installer), similar to stable updates.
However I'm not sure if this has ever been tested and the RC images of
d-i might not be the best time to try. I also spotted a bug when uploads
would go to t-p-u instead of wheezy in the .changes (which should be
fixed now)...
As Adam already pointed out we would still need another d-i upload to
unstable to make sure unstable has a higher-or-equal version compared to
testing.
Ansgar
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