Bug#982244: debian-installer: please stop using genisoimage
Source: debian-installer
Version: 20201202
Severity: important
Dear Debian Installer Maintainers,
the debian-installer package depends on genisoimage, which as you
know, comes from cdrkit. This causes cdrkit to be marked as a key
package for the release.
As far as I can tell, debian-installer uses genisoimage only for
alpha and hppa. It _looks_ like the genisoimage invocations could
be trivially replaced with xorriso, but I do not have any systems to
test this.
Please consider doing the replacements, or at least marking
genisoimage [alpha hppa].
I think we all agree that cdrkit should better go away except for
cases where there are no replacements yet.
Many thanks,
Chris
Reply to: