On 2026-06-15 12:14 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Control: severity -1 serious
> Control: clone -1 -2
> Control: reassign -2 live-installer/58
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 01:08:00PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>>Control: reassign -1 live-installer/58
>>
>>On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 12:04:25PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote:
>>> The Debian installer udeb 'live-installer.udeb' uses the 'chdir'
>>> command (instead of the more modern 'cd'), which is no longer
>>> provided by busybox 1.38.
>>> Therefore it is not possible to use a live image to install Debian.
>>
>>chdir was a non-standard extension in dash. This is a problem in
>>live-installer itself.
>
> The reporter did say that in their original message.
>
> Not sure why the above clone command didn't work, but let's have this
> as RC to prevent busybox from migrating until live-installer is fixed.
The cloned bug (#1140062) was fixed in live-installer 59 which migrated
to testing on June 20, so I think this bug can be closed to let busybox
migrate to testing as well.
Cheers,
Sven
