Bug#982244: debian-installer: please stop using genisoimage

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 05:18:04PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 2/7/21 5:11 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > the debian-installer package depends on genisoimage, which as you
> > know, comes from cdrkit. This causes cdrkit to be marked as a key
> > package for the release.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, debian-installer uses genisoimage only for
> > alpha and hppa. It _looks_ like the genisoimage invocations could
> > be trivially replaced with xorriso, but I do not have any systems to
> > test this.
> > 
> > Please consider doing the replacements, or at least marking
> > genisoimage [alpha hppa].
> > 
> > I think we all agree that cdrkit should better go away except for
> > cases where there are no replacements yet.
> 
> As discussed in the bug report, I am working on this issue. I am on
> the debian-installer team. I have access to the systems in question.
> 
> I just can't do hyper-tasking and fix 1000 issues at once.

A lot of time has passed since.

I would ask you to at least restrict the dependency to these
architectures. This would get us closer to removing 
genisoimage/cdrkit from testing.

Thanks,
Chris