Bug#852215: [Debian-ports-devel] Bug#852215: FTBFS on non-release architectures

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On 22.01.2017 17:03, James Clarke wrote:
> As you know, debian-installer does not build on non-release
> architectures, since it tries to build for stretch. Some architectures
> also have some of the needed udebs in the unreleased suite, such as
> sparc-utils on sparc64. The attached patch lets me build on sparc64 even
> after a `dch --release`, and I would assume on other ports architectures
> too. Is this something you would consider applying?

I fully support James request to add this patch.

I haven't yet tested it myself, but d-i doesn't build for hppa (and
the other ports arches) simply because it doesn't pull from unstable/unreleased.
The hppa unreleased suite for example includes d-i packages for
installing the hppa boot loader (which will never be included in
the main suite itself simply because hppa isn't a release arch) and
James patch would fix that.

Please apply this patch. It doesn't influence the release architectures 
at all but helps the non-releases architectures a lot.

Thanks,
Helge