On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 6:54 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/19/21 00:24, Alex McKeever wrote: > > I just tried installing the latest version of Debian Ports on my iMac G3 > > and well it fails to install GRUB. Falling back to April’s installation > > media (which I have on hand) that doesn’t have this problem that has > > seemingly > > cropped up again with the latest batch of images. > > Yes, that image doesn't work. The previous image does work, however. > > The reason why the current image doesn't work is because it does not contain a > manually build debian-installer package which is currently necessary because > the hfsprogs-udeb [1] package has not been accepted into unstable yet. > > So, please use the powerpc and ppc64 images from [2]. > > > [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/hfsprogs_540.1.linux3-5.html > > [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-17/
Have you considered running a repo with the fixes that Debian does not pick up or provide in a timely manner? There's little sense waiting for Debian since Debian is the barrier in the process. If Debian did not want to be a barrier, then they would have done something by now. It probably won't change anytime soon. A repo run by you to work around Debian's issues seems like a perfect fix. You are active in the development and you are aware of the open issues that need to be worked around. A repo run by you would probably reduce mailing list messages since things would start to "just work", which is what most users want. Adding a repo to sources.list or apt.conf.d is really easy. Once a user is aware they need to do it, there should be no more problems due to packages and availability. Jeff
