Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (21/01/2013): > Package: net-retriever > Version: 1.32 > Severity: wishlist > > I have been working for a Debian derivative. The derivative has its own > archive key in foo-archive-keyring and foo-archive-keyring-udeb. We found > that having a separate package was cleaner rather than putting non-Debian > keys in a forked debian-archive-keyring. > > The derivative also forks "debian-installer" to put his own artwork. > The installer images are thus rebuilt but they always embed the debian > keyring and not the derivative keyring. One doesn't find any meaningful > mention of debian-archive-keyring in the debian-installer package and > the keyring is only integrated due to net-retriever dependency on > debian-archive-keyring-udeb. > > Thus we had to fork net-retriever just to replace the > "debian-archive-keyring-udeb" dependency with "foo-archive-keyring-udeb". > > Maybe the dependency could be replaced with a virtual package > (archive-keyring-udeb) so that debian-installer's dependency resolution on > net-retriever could accept "foo-archive-keyring-udeb" that would be > injected sooner and that would provide foo-archive-keyring-udeb? > > I don't know whether d-i would cope with a virtual dependency or if it > would need a real alternative first (i.e. "debian-archive-keyring-udeb | > archive-keyring-udeb"). > > Or maybe there are cleaner solutions but it would be nice to avoid the > need to fork net-retriever just for this. Looking at a d-i Packages file, there are lots of Provides, some of which are used in Depends. As for alternatives, we have only two: $ grep '|' ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_main_debian-installer_binary-amd64_Packages Depends: archdetect, cdebconf-udeb, kbd-udeb | kbdcontrol-udeb | hurd-udeb Depends: cdebconf-udeb, dmidecode-udeb, localechooser, keyboard-setup, download-installer | load-cdrom Probably too late for wheezy anyway. Mraw, KiBi.
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