Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> (07/02/2013): > (ftr) which is where i disagree, with the mentioned patch against > d-i and debian-cd, you can release d-i wheezy rc1, even with > syslinux 5.x in sid. > > even more so: since steve uses a local copy of syslinux anyway > (judging from debian-cd sources as unfortunately the setup of > debian-cd on the buildhost is not documented) when invoking > debian-cd, it doesn't matter at all what version of syslinux is in > sid. That means at least broken mini.iso, which is totally unacceptable. > therefore, right now, even without any patches, the only actually > affected things are the images within the debian-installer-images (wrong) > tarball built by src:debian-installer, which i believe should be > possible to fix without too much of a hassle. let me know if you > want me to come up with a patch for that too. We're not going to patch various things to cope with syslinux 5 “just because”. Especially when the list of said things is growing over time. It's time to realize that we had working things, and that you broke athem. Patching reverse dependencies isn't what is going to happen here. KiBi.
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