Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote (Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:53:22 +0200):
> Given the question below, I suppose you could revert this change
> manually and restart the installer (after all, it's about a symlink and
> a line in a config file).
Sure. I did that already.
But this does not gain any value, because building an image myself now without
doing any changings leads to a working d-i (on i386, if arch matters) !!!
I don't need to do anything to get a working d-i, just build myself.
But why does the RC1 fail then?
Holger
> > However, I don't get it, why recent dailies are not affected, while
> > RC1 (and alpha3) is ???
> >
> > (That might be the reason, why this issue slipped through our
> > attention until now...)
> >
> > Are there differences during build for the "release builds" (alpha,
> > rc) compared to the dailies?
>
> You can check debian/rules for USE_UDEBS_FROM:
> - releases fetch their udebs from testing;
> - dailies fetch their udebs from unstable (to shorten the feedback
> loop, and to inform our decision to let some packages migrate or not
> when a freeze — udebs or otherwise — is in effect)
>
> You can switch to/from UNRELEASED in the first line of the changelog to
> get the desired results. Or you can set the variable yourself if you run
> something like this:
>
> make -C build/ rebuild_netboot-gtk USE_UDEBS_FROM=unstable
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>
> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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