Bug#982244: debian-installer: please stop using genisoimage
Hello Christian!
On 2/7/21 5:11 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> 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.
As discussed in the bug report, I am working on this issue. I am on
the debian-installer team. I have access to the systems in question.
I just can't do hyper-tasking and fix 1000 issues at once.
Adrian
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