Release team: theres a question for you at the end of the mail. On 20/04/15 00:49, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
AIUI the overall process goes as follows (please correct me if any of this is wrong).peter green<plugwash@p10link.net> (2015-04-20):Package: debian-installer-netboot-images Severity: serious The RC policy states "Packages must be buildable within the same release.". In this context I interpret "buildable" as buildable from actual sourcecode (not just package together) and "the same release" as the collection of stuff that Debian will be officially releasing as jessie.So you meant to file a bug against debian-installer rather than d-i-n-i?
1: various source packages in debian build udebs. Building the source package for architecture foo produces debs and udebs for archicture foo. 2: the "debian-installer" source package uses those udebs to build installer images, again building "debian-installer" for architecture foo produces installation images for architecture foo. The installation images are placed in a special place in the archive. 3: Building the "debian-installer-netboot-images" source package retrives some of those images from their special place in the archive and packs them up into arch all packages.
If an architecture is removed from a release 1 and 2 will still be fine. 3 OTOH will need manual changes to avoid shipping packages that cannot be rebuilt "within the same release". AIUI if an architecture for which "debian-installer-netboot-images" packs the installer image in an arch all package is removed from the release then debian-installer-netboot-images will FTBFS.
I was mistaken on one thing though, despite the release teams mail months ago [1] saying that "We are dropping it as an official release architecture" it would appear that kfreebsd has not actually been removed from jessie at this point.
Release team: can you clarify whether you intend to actually remove kfreebsd from the jessie suite of the official archive before/during the jessie release?
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00005.html