Unfortunately this still appears to fail for me, at least in qemu.
I do get an hfs partition during the partitioning stage, but grub fails 
installing to /dev/sda2.
Interestingly I don’t get to select the partition.

> On 23 Mar 2022, at 13:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On 12/27/21 11:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Last but not least, the partman-hfs udeb package is currently not part of 
>> the official Debian distribution
>> as I have not continued with the work while the updated hfsprogs package was 
>> still in the NEW queue. I
>> wasn't sure whether hfsprogs would still be accepted after such a long time, 
>> so I decided to rather wait
>> with partman-hfs.
>> 
>> The current situation is now that partman-hfs needs to be worked on next and 
>> Debian Ports needs to get
>> support for the "contrib" and "non-free" distributions. The former is 
>> relatively easy and since I already
>> have a rough draft package, it won't take me too long to get a proper 
>> partman-hfs package ready.
> 
> Finally an update on this. I took the time today to finalize the partman-hfs 
> package and I expect it to
> upload it to Debian unstable within the next days. I'm just waiting for some 
> comments from one of the
> other maintainers of debian-installers. Once I have received those, I will 
> upload the package.
> 
> I have also fixed the problem with the bogus error message now during 
> partitioning and the whole partitioning
> works as expected now. You can download a preliminary test ISO installation 
> image for PowerPC from here [1].
> 
> Adrian
> 
>> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/hfstest-20220323/
> 
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