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

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

On 07.02.2013 08:31, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Technically d-i point release updates are built in
> "stable-proposed-updates" and build dependencies are satisfied in 
> stable
> (+ s-p-u maybe). Similarly it should be possible to build d-i for 
> wheezy
> in testing-proposed-updates right now (and have build-deps satisfied 
> in
> wheezy).

For reference, it would also require an otherwise no-op upload of the 
debian-installer package to unstable, to ensure that testing <= 
unstable.

> t-p-u is frowned upon for normal packages because the release
> team like the testing packages get in unstable, but in the case of 
> d-i the
> only thing that needs to be tested are the installer images which end 
> up
> on the mirror and not in the package repository (the installer 
> directories
> are shared between wheezy and sid).

I believe they once were shared; that's no longer the case - to the 
extent that there's a "dak copy-installer" command to migrate the 
non-package elements.

Regards,

Adam