Bug#861288: debian-cd: please add reportbug to netinstall and cd iso
Control: tag -1 +pending
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 07:10:40AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Version: 3.1.19
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>Please see the discussion at
>https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/04/msg00305.html and
>further.
>
>As seen from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/list-cd/debian-8.7.1-amd64-CD-1.list.gz
>and trying with zless found that neither reportbug nor
>python-reportbug/python3-reportbug(stretch) is either in netinstall or
>in CD iso.
>
> There is a valid corner case where you are installing and there is
>either no or very little net access and you need reportbug to know in
>case an installation goes south. Having it in both netinstall and CD
>iso images would make sure that there is at least an installation
>report there on the usb disk/thumbdrive.
>
>Looking forward to see reportbug and python3-reportbug on netinstall
>and CD. Having a look at packages.d.o I saw that the two packages
>together are less than 300 kb in compressed format. Also the depends
>is mostly each other and python/3.
>
>Please let me know if any more information is needed from my end.
Hi Shirish,
I've added reportbug to the task list "forcd1", which is the list of
packages that are added for all media types larger than the netinst. I
know you've asked for the netinst too, but I really don't think it
fits there sensibly. The netinst is meant to give *directly* only a
minimal system with sufficient tools to get a system installed and
running. Anything more than that depends on having network
connectivity - the clue is in the name!
If anybody is really stuck for network connectivity at installation
time, they should be using a better (i.e. more complete) installation
medium.
I've applied this change in git, so all our stretch builds will pick
up on it immediately. The bug will close fully when I do the next
upload of the debian-cd package, due soon so it gets included in the
stretch release.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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