Package: osinfo-db Version: 0.20181120-1 Severity: normal Tags: buster Dear Maintainer,
Using for example gnome-boxes and trying to use the wizard to install a new debian machine gives a horrible experience in Buster (10). The reason seems to be that the osinfo-db version shipped in buster contains xml with broken urls. (The latest debian release is also debian 9 rather than 10.) Please consider an update of osinfo-db for stable-updates (in coordination with stable release managers). Either update osinfo-db to a newer upstream version (if SRMs agree) or atleast backport the fixes to data/os/debian.org/* that has been made since the version shipped with buster. I've manually modified the installed debian-9.xml file on my system and replaced the <url>...</url> parts with what the current upstream version contains and can confirm that fixes the gnome-boxes express install of debian 9. (Another option would be to get a newer osinfo-db into buster-backports but I really think the urls should be fixed in stable proper.) If you want help with doing the work, please just say it! -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -- no debconf information
