Hi Cyril, > > Devil's advocate: this is surely unlikely to break the release of > > buster itself? I mean, for the "final" official buster builds, that is? > > That's exactly the point: I don't think it's unlikely. […]
Could you elaborate on this bit? sources.list(5) options aren't /that/ common, in my experience. I ACK the lack of visibility until it hits buildds, thanks for explaining that. > As a middle ground, how does the following sound? First test this in > unstable with the first alpha for bullseye, and possible backport it > in a point release? Ah, a point release might be the thing. Indeed, we might need some other tiny changes to be reproducible that only become visible once we can do the aforementioned extensive testing. In the meantime, Mattia: I wonder if we could hack something specific for src:debian-installer in addition to the network access exception? For example, my reading of: 683 if [ "$(MIRROR)x" != "x" ]; then \ 684 echo "deb $(MIRROR) $(USE_UDEBS_FROM) $(UDEB_COMPONENTS)"; \ 685 if [ "$(USE_UNRELEASED)" = 1 ]; then \ 686 echo "deb $(MIRROR) unreleased $(UDEB_COMPONENTS)"; \ 687 fi \ 688 else \ 689 gen-sources.list.udeb "$(SYSTEM_SOURCES_LIST)" $(USE_UDEBS_FROM) $(UDEB_COMPONENTS) $(USE_PROPOSED_UPDATES); \ 690 if [ "$(USE_UNRELEASED)" = 1 ]; then \ 691 gen-sources.list.udeb "$(SYSTEM_SOURCES_LIST)" unreleased $(UDEB_COMPONENTS); \ 692 fi \ 693 fi) > $@ … suggests that if we could export "MIRROR" pointing to (literally) "[check-valid-until=no] http://deb.debian.org/debian" (!). Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-