Bug#866629: debian-installer: Installer showes Debootstrap Error debian stretch live installation

[Prahlad Yeri <prahladyeri@yahoo.com>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 20:24:20 +0100
Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu 06 Jul 2017 at 00:35:21 +0530, Prahlad Yeri wrote:
> 
> > Can confirm this bug on the live installer - tried both XFCE and
> > LXDE versions.
> > 
> > Never expected such goof up on a debian stable version!
> > Granted that its just released, but we do go through ages of testing
> > before reaching stable, don't we? The reason a user comes to debian
> > in the first place is stability. If you don't even get that, then
> > what is the rationale for using debian stable against something
> > like Ubuntu LTS where you get both stability and newer packages?  
> 
> Your question (after the rhetorical first one) is probing. Debian has
> never had bugs before. We do not know how this managed to creep in. We
> will try better.

Sorry, didn't intend to hurt your feelings, just trying to raise my
concerns as a user and trying to understand the process. I don't know
how the testing process works at debian, but If I were making the point
release of a distro, one of the basic things I'd check is whether the
ISO installs work on an actual physical machine (not in a VM) - and
doing so would have helped catch this bug as there are usually no
network resources (like wifi, etc.) configured at boot time that could
have provided internet connectivity (in which case, it used to work and
the bug wasn't apparent).

I understand that bugs are a part of the linux distro life cycle, but
I did not expect something as basic as an install process to falter.
But again, maybe I'm wrong about the bug being so apparent, and its
just easy to say this in hindsight.

No offence meant, have a nice day!

-- 
Regards,
Prahlad