Hey folks, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> (2018-03-07): > On 2017-08-06 20:55, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > debian-installer used to re-link all the libraries going into the initrd > > in order to strip unneeded symbols, using mklibs. That is the reason why > > libnewt0.52-pic was needed. Unfortunately it was subject to regular > > breakage, so d-i switched to mklibs-copy which just copies the regular > > library. > > > > It would now make sense to get rid of mklibs-copy and switch to a > > regular udeb. Therefore would it be possible to add a libnewt0.52-udeb > > package to newt? That's the purpose of the attached patch. > > > > Once the transition has been done, it will be possible to get rid of the > > libnewt0.52-pic package. > > Any news about that? Does it sounds acceptable to you? For debian-boot@: newt now has a new udeb, it migrated to testing, Aurélien removed the build-dep on libnewt, and we should be getting a cdebconf binNMU soon to get cdebconf-newt-udeb to depend on that new udeb instead of the current libnewt0.52; since the last two bits seem to be happening in the wrong order, that explains why d-i daily builds are popping up as broken on various archs (where libnewt0.52 is no longer getting pulled automatically). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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