Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release
On 02/06/2013 03:17 PM, Anthony Towns wrote:
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?
exactely; it is fundamentally broken to build a $distribution image
containing anything outside the $distribution itself (which is why e.g.
live-build doesn't do that (unless told otherwise for special 'needs')).
if it is (socially) not possible to fix the tools and therefore building
$distribution means that $distribution+1 needs to be frozen too, then
either freeze both $distribution and $distribution+1, or freeze a
certain list of packages in $distribution+1 in addition to $distribution
that are known-needed for $distribution (as syslinux).
keeping $distribution+1 unfrozen but at the same time not allowing it to
be used as unfrozen is broken (i already said why using experimental
doesn't work in this case).
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