Bug#1093565: partman: changing partition usage may leave the wrong type in partition table
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:38:07PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>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 ?
There's code in debian-cd (tools/generate_di_list) which will include
all the extra udebs unless:
1. they are excluded
2. they are kernel driver udebs for older kernel ABIs
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