On 2017-08-06 20:55, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Source: newt > Version: 0.52.20-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > debian-installer used to re-link all the libraries going into the initrd > in order to strip unneeded symbols, using mklibs. That is the reason why > libnewt0.52-pic was needed. Unfortunately it was subject to regular > breakage, so d-i switched to mklibs-copy which just copies the regular > library. > > It would now make sense to get rid of mklibs-copy and switch to a > regular udeb. Therefore would it be possible to add a libnewt0.52-udeb > package to newt? That's the purpose of the attached patch. > > Once the transition has been done, it will be possible to get rid of the > libnewt0.52-pic package.
Any news about that? Does it sounds acceptable to you? Thanks, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
