Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> (2024-04-14): > I realised that there might be a way to kludge around the current D-I > build failures, so I gave it a try and it seems to work: > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/45 > > That creates dummy udebs with the missing names, where each depends upon > the matching udeb that actually exists. Dropping them into localudebs. > > That's enough to get D-I to build in salsa pipelines, such that one gets > a mini-ISO to test. > > It may be enough to get D-I and debian-cd back to the point where we can > produce daily images etc. but I'm not completely sure about that bit > (perhaps the use of localudebs is enough to make debian-cd grumpy?) > > Anyway, it's currently broken anyway, so perhaps it's worth giving it a > go, and then reverting the commit once the proper fixes become > available. > > What do you think? I'd rather see actual progress in getting packages fixed. So far I haven't been chasing because I thought people would be busy rebuilding the world, in the right order, and patching things along, but I had hoped to get *some* kind of feedback after filing those bug reports and putting people driving changes in the loop. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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