Re: Bug#964248: marked as done (base-installer: Pass "--extra-suites=unreleased" to debootstrap on ports arches)
Hello Samuel!
On 8/17/20 1:06 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, le lun. 17 août 2020 00:55:08 +0200, a ecrit:
>>> and then a couple other changes, I'm waiting for the above to be merged
>>> before I can submit them.
>>
>> What happens when a port does not have any packages in "unreleased"?
>
> My debian-cd changes create empty files so that d-i is happy (exactly
> like is done for -backports).
OK, that's a possible workaround. However, ...
>> I checked the patch and it enables "unreleased" unconditionally. I'm
>> not sure whether that's a good idea.
>
> I don't think we really have a better choice: writing yet another arch
> list looks dirty, and trying whether the suite is available is probably
> quite complex to implement.
... I don't quite understand why "unreleased" is supposed to be part of the
base installation. "unreleased" is not a regular package archive and all
packages in there are usually only added temporarily.
Does Debian Hurd require packages from "unreleased" for it's base system?
Since "unreleased" is not properly maintained due to the fact that all
packages there are built and uploaded manually, I rather prefer them not
to be enabled by default, especially not for the base system.
Adrian
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