Hi all,
I admit I'm not fully aware of how win32-loader is a special case in the Debian archive, but given this current bug I thought to mention the following.
I've seen multiple times that win32-loader was mentioned during a stable point release IRC discussion and I am under the impression that "we" want to remove it at some point. I'm wondering if now might be that moment.
On 12-04-2025 12:54, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
I'm not aware of anyone wanting to keep win32-loader around, so
yeah, looking into its removal would make sense to me.
To be fair, I was mostly thinking about it's special status in our
archive, but I just realized (and checked) it's also part of how d-i
is built. I assume now you mean here that I should also look into the
d-i parts and provide an MR.
Hi,
On 12-04-2025 12:54, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> (2025-04-12):
Do you speak on behalf of all maintainers here? Do you want me to find
out what needs to be done to remove win32-loader from trixie?
I'm not aware of anyone wanting to keep win32-loader around, so yeah,
looking into its removal would make sense to me.
To be fair, I was mostly thinking about it's special status in our archive, but I just realized (and checked) it's also part of how d-i is built. I assume now you mean here that I should also look into the d-i parts and provide an MR. I can try ofcourse, but I'm happy to leave it to you if you say, nah, that's trivial.
It has already been removed from the d-i builds 2 years ago with <https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/commit/bba0f2116c5c4b768928d97132f63bd99ba21070>
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