Bug#986506: debian-installer: Please rebuild the installer images (Bullseye) in order to get a newer kernel version

[Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20201202
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Hello maintainers of the Debian installer,

Now that Debian Bullseye is in hard freeze, could you consider to update the
Debian installer images to use the current kernel from Bullseye [2]? This would
help in building live images using live-build [3].

The last published image of the Debian installer is from 2020-12-02 [1], and
the kernel version is 5.9.0-4-amd64, while in Bullseye the kernel currently is
5.10.0-5-amd64. The daily-built images contain the current kernel [4].

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

PS: This was also posted to the mailing list [5], without a reply so far

[1] http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-amd64/
[2]
http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-
amd64/current/images/cdrom/
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages
[4] https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/cdrom/
[5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/03/msg00166.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing-
debug'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)