[Debian-ports-devel] Bug#852215: FTBFS on non-release architectures

[James Clarke]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20170112
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-ports-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,
As you know, debian-installer does not build on non-release
architectures, since it tries to build for stretch. Some architectures
also have some of the needed udebs in the unreleased suite, such as
sparc-utils on sparc64. The attached patch lets me build on sparc64 even
after a `dch --release`, and I would assume on other ports architectures
too. Is this something you would consider applying?

Regards,
James



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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