On 2019-03-09, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 22:01 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 14:39 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> [...] >> > > * Rebuild the debian-installer images, pulling in updates from >> > > stretch-updates, leaving only armhf netboot targets broken. >> > >> > Expanding a bit: rebuilding src:debian-installer from the stretch >> > branch, which has s-p-u enabled, would fetch the fixed kernel and a >> > couple of its udebs, at build time; the resulting netboot images >> > wouldn't know about s-p-u though at run time, and would try to load >> > udebs from stretch. >> >> [...] >> >> Why is that a problem? The only change made in 4.9.144-3.1 is in the >> kernel image, and the module udebs don't have versioned dependencies. > > However, as an additional data point, the kernel currently sat in NEW > and destined for stable has an ABI bump. If that's accepted, then I > assume things will "just work" in the meantime as the old binary > packages will hang around until they're decrufted, but it's worth > bearing in mind.
A debian-installer build for stretch-proposed-updates was made, which may not get merged into stretch before the next point release. For the time being: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch-proposed-updates/main/installer-armhf/ I've successfully tested version "20170615+deb9u5+b3", as well as at least one other person. It should continue to work until the next point release, and I'll do at least some minimal testing of the next point release on armhf before pushing it to stretch so this doesn't happen again. More details in: https://bugs.debian.org/924129 live well, vagrant
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