Hi, On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 05:18:04PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 2/7/21 5:11 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > the debian-installer package depends on genisoimage, which as you > > know, comes from cdrkit. This causes cdrkit to be marked as a key > > package for the release. > > > > As far as I can tell, debian-installer uses genisoimage only for > > alpha and hppa. It _looks_ like the genisoimage invocations could > > be trivially replaced with xorriso, but I do not have any systems to > > test this. > > > > Please consider doing the replacements, or at least marking > > genisoimage [alpha hppa]. > > > > I think we all agree that cdrkit should better go away except for > > cases where there are no replacements yet. > > As discussed in the bug report, I am working on this issue. I am on > the debian-installer team. I have access to the systems in question. > > I just can't do hyper-tasking and fix 1000 issues at once.
A lot of time has passed since. I would ask you to at least restrict the dependency to these architectures. This would get us closer to removing genisoimage/cdrkit from testing. Thanks, Chris
