Bug#473144: provide {loadlin,gzip,cpio}.exe for dynamic use

["Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <odyx@debian.org>]

Hi Cyril,

Le lundi, 17 mars 2014, 02.33:03 Cyril Brulebois a écrit :
> any opinion on the following (rather old) bug report?

Yes; thanks for pinging.

> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> (2008-03-28):
> > Currently, win32-loader is linking in loadlin.exe, gzip.exe and
> > cpio.exe statically into the executable, which is less than ideal
> > for the propagation of upgraded versions.
> > 
> > This patch adds them in their own win32-loader/ directory, so that
> > newer versions can get these files from there instead.

While this would be certainly possible and possibly interesting in the 
context of the installer, win32-loader.exe now also ships to 
/debian/tools/win32-loader on the mirrors where it now additionally 
bundles debian-archive-keyring and gpgv.exe to actually verify that the 
things it downloads can be trusted.

So, while working on this could _reduce_ the bundling of win32-loader 
with {loadlin, gzip, cpio}.exe, it still needs to be bundled with 
gpgv.exe and debian-archive-keyring for another variant. All-in-all, 
given that a arch:all upload isn't that hard afterall, I'd rather be in 
favour of uploading these more frequently (to bundle the changes in 
these other sources) and tag this bug +wontfix.

Cheers,
OdyX