Bug#1040216: cdebconf: confmodule: Erranous behaviour if IFS does not start with a space during db_*

d will fail if the calling shell's IFS does not start with a space, e.g. `IFS=$'\n'; while read foo; do ... do_foo ...; done`. A patch to fix this this issue is available at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/20 (extracted from https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/19) Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci

Bug#1040224: cdebconf: confmodule cannot be sourced by scripts that use `set -u`

nd at https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/21 (extracted from https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/19). Regards -- Gioele Barabucci

Bug#1006491: console-setup should depend on debconf-2.0

console-setup-mini. Patch: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/console-setup/-/merge_requests/11 Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci

Bug#1006492: cdebconf should not depend on debconf

nd on some variation of `debconf | debconf-2.0`. This hard-dependence can now be removed. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/commit/b4dfa070d676917f12f58cc52fe46fe2f4094fc3 Regards -- Gioele Barabucci

Success in using cdebconf alone to bootstrap VMs

mmits/independence -- Gioele Barabucci

Bug#1026858: Dependency on debconf dropped prematurely

html [3] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/11 -- Gioele Barabucci

Bug#1087959: cdebconf: Consider using the standard dh sequence in d/rules

MR that changes `d/rules` to use the standard dh sequence at: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/-/merge_requests/23 According to diffoscope, the generated binary packages are identical to the current ones. -- Gioele Barabucci

Bug#1092949: debian-installer could propose installing linux-image-cloud when run inside a VM

-$arch instead, as it comes with a reduced set of modules and dependencies and fits better the needs of modern VMs. Detecting whether d-i is running inside virtualized environment could be done using `systemd-detect-virt` or `dmidecode --string processor-manufacturer`. Regards, -- Gioele