Hi,

Am 27. März 2025 15:25:09 MEZ schrieb Paul Gevers <[email protected]>:

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.

Yes, please.


Holger



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Paul Gevers <[email protected]> (2025-04-12):

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.

No, I mean whoever wants to have it removed should feel free to look
into what's needed for that to happen. I didn't ask you to, and I did
not volunteer either.


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Hi,

Am 12. April 2025 13:17:30 MESZ schrieb Paul Gevers <[email protected]>:

Hi,

On 12-04-2025 12:54, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

Paul Gevers <[email protected]> (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 of

course, 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>


Holger



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Holger Wansing <[email protected]> (2025-04-12):

It has already been removed from the d-i builds 2 years ago with <https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/-/commit/bba0f2116c5c4b768928d97132f63bd99ba21070>

That'd be the *images* builds.

It's still listed and used in src:debian-installer builds, see
debian/control and build/config/x86.cfg at the very least (this isn't
any kind of extensive research).


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