Bug#843916: debian-installer: fails to FTBFS when u-boot bits go missing
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20161031
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS(ish)
(X-D-Cc: u-boot Maintainer & Uploaders; please keep them in the loop
when replying; also debian-arm@ for good measure.)
Hi,
Steve noted that the armel build fails on the cdimage side because
kirkwood/u-boot stuff is missing for openrd. This isn't entirely
surprising because the latest u-boot upload to unstable, which got
used to build debian-installer 20161031 had:
| u-boot (2016.09+dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
[…]
| * Remove openrd targets, as they do not boot (Closes: #837629).
|
| -- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:36:36 -0700
I might have missed messages on debian-boot@, but a quick search on
kirkwood or openrd doesn't get me any unread messages warning us about
their imminent removal. It really would be nice to make sure
debian-boot@ knows about such things in advance (even better if I get
explicitly cc'ed on this so as to make sure I don't miss something
affecting next d-i releases).
That being said, there's still the issue of debian-installer's build
system not detecting this issue, which is what this bug report is
about.
Once a fix is implemented for this specific issue, it would be nice to
know what to do with the kirkwood/u-boot things for openrd. If they're
not going to work (again/at all), the relevant code should go away
from debian-installer.git; or am I missing anything?
Input welcome.
KiBi.
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