Hello Cyril, > Hi, > > Carsten Schoenert <[email protected]> (2020-01-18): >> I've tried to rebuild the current debian-installer for buster. But this >> fails as without further modification the environment tries to get the >> udebs from the unstable archive. > > d-i can definitely be built on buster, we do that regularly.
I'm sure you do this (and also for a long time successfully). :) I've tried to follow the instructions from the wiki and also the README on different machines / architectures and was always failing in case I've chosen the buster branch. >> I guess the reason is a small oversight to also change the variable >> USE_UDEBS_FROM in build/config/common to the value 'buster' instead of >> 'unstable'. > > Heuristics happen in debian/rules, see finalized vs. non-finalized > changelog cases. I don't think we've ever changed build/config/common in > the distribution branches, so I'm not sure I'd call that an oversight > (compared to previous iterations of the exact same process). We could > probably adopt the change anyway, though. I'll try to keep that in mind > when I process (o)pu requests later on. Thanks for consideration! I've written an additional deeper explanation for my patch in my other answer to Holger which you for sure also have seen. I haven't followed the git history for more than about a year, it was just a guess that the change I propose did happen in past too for the other release names but not here for the buster release. -- Regards Carsten Schoenert
