Hello Cyril, On 19/05/2023 00:59, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Speaking as someone who happen{ed,s} to come across live-build things for unrelated reasons: Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2023-05-18):I've implemented a workaround for the live images at [1]. As a result, the xfwm4 desktop manager is now the only desktop manager.This seems to have been merged in live-build master. I'm not sure whether this is a workaround or a real fix; if that's the latter, it should probably be reassigned to live-build?
I consider it a workaround, because the netinst D-I is still affected. If the LXQt desktop is selected in the installer, the Wayland desktop manager is used instead of xfwm4.
The MR for a proposed fix (in tasksel) is at [1].
Two questions, with RC 4 in mind (and as a reminder, while I'll be dealing with D-I Bookworm RC 4 with a focus on… the installer primarily, live images are being built and released at the same time): - Is there a live-build upload planned to publish this fix to unstable?
There is no (direct) need for an upload due to this workaround. The building process is primarily tied to git, not to the Debian archive: The daily live images are generated reproducibly by using the timestamp of the last DAK run to time travel back to the corresponding git commit of live-build. That same procedure is used for the weekly live builds (which have not been as thoroughly tested as the daily builds in openQA [3]).
- With or without an extra upload, is there a plan to ask for an unblock?
It seems best to ship in $codename the tools being built to build
$codename. (Similar example: debian-cd.)
The script to build the live images is not present in any Debian package, it lives only in Salsa [2].
With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/merge_requests/23[2] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/test/rebuild.sh
[3] https://openqa.debian.net/group_overview/14
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