Hi, On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 10:20:32 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes: > > debian-installer-netboot-images currently violates Debian Policy by > > fetching debian-installer images over the network during install - see > > bug#807168. > > > > I believe¹ that debian-installer produces those pieces needed by > > debian-installer-netboot-images, and suspect that providing in a binary > > package the pieces needed for debian-installer-netboot-images could (at > > least partially) solve bug#807168. > > > > This bug marked important (not wishlist) as bug#807168 is RC. > > I don't think its so easy: d-i-n-i are arch:all packages, but need > binaries for all architectures. To get these as build-dependencies we > would need cross-arch build-deps which we don't have so far. what do you mean by that? Source packages like cross-gcc-4.9-armhf *do* have cross-arch build-deps. Were you talking about missing support in britney to properly transition source packages with cross-arch build-deps? Is there a bug about this open somewhere? Thanks! cheers, josch
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