Bug#986209: debian-cd: Please provide symlinks for stable, unstable, etc...
Package: debian-cd
Version: 3.1.33
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: j2468h@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
While building my own CDs I've discovered that while most tools, e.g. debootstrap, allow using `unstable` / `sid` with the same results, debian-cd does not.
This could be handled by adding symlinks, like for sid, to data, tasks, tools/boot , thus allowing the user to specify CODENAME=unstable to build a sid installer cd.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Enforcing - Policy name: bauen1-policy
Versions of packages debian-cd depends on:
ii apt 2.2.2
ii bc 1.07.1-2+b2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii cpp 4:10.2.1-1
ii curl 7.74.0-1.1
ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.24-3+b1
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.7.1
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3.2
pn libcompress-zlib-perl <none>
pn libdigest-md5-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.7.1
ii lynx 2.9.0dev.6-2
ii make 4.3-4
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.32.1-3
ii tofrodos 1.7.13+ds-5
ii wget 1.21-1+b1
ii xorriso 1.5.2-1
Versions of packages debian-cd recommends:
ii dosfstools 4.2-1
ii hfsutils 3.2.6-15
ii isolinux 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
ii mtools 4.0.26-1
ii netpbm 2:10.0-15.4
ii syslinux-common 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
ii syslinux-utils 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3
debian-cd suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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