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Bug#1093565: partman: changing partition usage may leave the wrong type in partition table



Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> (2025-12-17):
> On 16/12/2025 at 23:38, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:03:54 +0100):
> > > 
> > > AFAICS partman-prep is still included in ppc64el images, and
> > > grub-installer still looks for a PReP boot partition.
> > 
> > I'm curious how this works, since partman-prep is not mentioned in
> > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/tree/master/build/config?ref_type=heads
> > but you are right, it's included there.
> 
> I have no idea of how udebs to be included in ISO images are selected. I can
> only guess that debian-installer picks udebs to be included in d-i initrds,
> and debian-cd picks udebs to be included in ISO images. However debian-cd
> udeb include lists contain very few packages. Exclude lists are bigger, so
> maybe all udebs available for the architecture are included by default ?

That's the reason behind <20250515030823.lqququzhma44rabf@mraw.org>
(which you've seen). See tools/generate_di_list (in debian-cd.git)
and its looping over Packages files.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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