Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 00:17:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On 5 February 2013 22:48, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: tech-ctte
>
> > - the debian-installer source package, which builds the installer images
> > for debian's releases, build-depends on syslinux
> > - the release freeze for wheezy started in June 2012, and is now in its
> > final stages
> > - one of the prerequisites for the release is a release candidate for
> > the installer
> > - the syslinux maintainer uploaded new upstream versions of his package
> > to unstable, which were unsuitable for wheezy, in November 2012, and
> > again at the end of January 2013
> > - the latest of these uploads breaks the installer, [...]
>
> Isn't this a rationale for d-i to use the stable builds of syslinux
> present in testing (or potentially testing-proposed-updates) rather
> than unstable?
>
Not any more than it is a rationale for any other package currently
uploaded to unstable and targetted at wheezy to get its
build-dependencies from testing? I.e. probably not...
Cheers,
Julien
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