Hi, Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2025-09-01): > Package: debian-live > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org > > Hello, > > As reported on a side-note in #1110534, the GNOME live image for trixie > 13.0.0 installs a nearly empty 'sources.list' file when using the live d-i > installer. The sources.list file only contains the CD-ROM entry and no > comments. > > The installer does not ask for a mirror, while the 12.11 live image did so. > > Looking at the syslog files in /var/log/installer for both installations > (with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5), it turns out that some udeb files are not present on > the live image, e.g. apt-mirror-setup. > > Also noted in #1112485, some espeakup related packages are missing too. > > So most probably the bug can be found in the step that builds the installer. > > On my first attempt, I didn't get a bug report number. (#1113701) > Meanwhile I looked deeper into the issue. > > I've traced it back to 0c3b3905b5503d011de15d69232e09548042226e from > 2024-02-23. It appears that the `udeb_exclude` file from bookworm was empty > in live-build, while it mentions `apt-mirror-setup` in debian-cd [1]. When > synchronising the debian-cd directory for trixie/forky this bug was > activated and undetected, because the current installation tests are run > without network adapter -> at least one test is required with a network > card. > > With kind regards, > Roland > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/blob/master/data/trixie/udeb_exclude?ref_type=heads Only glancing at this, this would explain a number of reports we've received regarding suboptimal installations from Live images. It would be great to have fixed in 13.1, and this looks like something that doesn't need any updates of d-i component(s) or d-i itself? I'm usually uploading src:debian-installer on the Monday preceeding point releases, but I'm happy to wait a little in case something else is needed here. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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