Bug#986209: debian-cd: Please provide symlinks for stable, unstable, etc...

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> On Mar 31, 2021, at 12:18 PM, bauen1 <j2468h@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>