Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 06.02.2013 14:17, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On 5 February 2013 22:48, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: tech-ctte
>
> > - the debian-installer source package, which builds the installer 
> > images
> >   for debian's releases, build-depends on syslinux
> > - the release freeze for wheezy started in June 2012, and is now in 
> > its
> >   final stages
> > - one of the prerequisites for the release is a release candidate 
> > for
> >   the installer
> > - the syslinux maintainer uploaded new upstream versions of his 
> > package
> >   to unstable, which were unsuitable for wheezy, in November 2012, 
> > and
> >   again at the end of January 2013
> > - the latest of these uploads breaks the installer, [...]
>
> Isn't this a rationale for d-i to use the stable builds of syslinux
> present in testing (or potentially testing-proposed-updates) rather
> than unstable?

It's a build-dependency in the (debian-installer) source package, so 
will naturally be pulled from whichever suite that package is being 
built in.

I assume it could instead be downloaded from a mirror during the build 
process, similarly to udebs, but my understanding was that we were 
trying to reduce the use of such mechanisms within the d-i build, rather 
than adding more of them.

Regards,

Adam