On 22.01.2017 17:03, James Clarke wrote: > As you know, debian-installer does not build on non-release > architectures, since it tries to build for stretch. Some architectures > also have some of the needed udebs in the unreleased suite, such as > sparc-utils on sparc64. The attached patch lets me build on sparc64 even > after a `dch --release`, and I would assume on other ports architectures > too. Is this something you would consider applying?
I fully support James request to add this patch. I haven't yet tested it myself, but d-i doesn't build for hppa (and the other ports arches) simply because it doesn't pull from unstable/unreleased. The hppa unreleased suite for example includes d-i packages for installing the hppa boot loader (which will never be included in the main suite itself simply because hppa isn't a release arch) and James patch would fix that. Please apply this patch. It doesn't influence the release architectures at all but helps the non-releases architectures a lot. Thanks, Helge
