Bug#1006800: debian-installer: kernel mismatch for bookworm and sid installer. New release needed?
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20210731+deb11u2
Severity: normal
Dear maintainer(s) of debian-installer,
I've been working on reproducible live ISO images for some time now [1] and the
images can be generated in a reproducible manner.
As the next step, I want to test the functionality of the live ISO images and
recently I started working with Philip Hands to get them being tested in
openQA.
I have noticed that the officially released version debian-installer [2][3]
will not work for bookworm and sid, because the kernel version in the debian-
installer does not match the current kernel version. You recently fixed this in
git [4].
Could you release a new version of debian-installer for bookworm and sid?
Or do you recommend a different (release) strategy?
I'm aware of the daily images [5], but they are currently not being
snapshotted, which makes it impossible to reproduce an image after the older
images have been removed from [5].
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages
[2]
https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220305T025031Z/dists/sid/main/installer-
amd64/20210731/
[3] https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/current/
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-
installer/-/blob/f810235e642e7ed266cc6a41b8fccd864180714a
[5] https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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