[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#862746: unblock: simple-cdd/0.6.5

[Niels Thykier]

Cyril Brulebois:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org> (2017-05-16):
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: unblock
>> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot at lists.debian.org, simple-cdd-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>> Thanks for all your work on the Release Team!
>>
>> Please unblock package simple-cdd
>>
>> With the recent announcement shutting down public FTP services:
>>
>>   https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2017/msg00001.html
>>
>> This requires some significant changes in simple-cdd, as simple-cdd
>> relied on Debian's FTP mirrors for downloading files discovered by FTP
>> directory listing.
>>
>> Now simple-cdd uses http://deb.debian.org/debian/extrafiles, an
>> inline-signed list of checksums for various content in the archive
>> (notably, tools/*, docs/*). This also allows signature and checksum
>> verification of all downloaded files, which is a huge security
>> improvement.
> 
> The introduction of this file is indeed great news.
> 
> […]
> 
>> No changes were made to the simple-cdd-profiles udeb, so should not
>> have any impact on debian-installer.
> 
> ACK. TBF I was surprised to even get this mail in the first place. ;)
> 
> [Reminds me I really should try simple-cdd one day, but too many birds,
> too little time.]
> 
> 
> KiBi.
> 

Unblocked, thanks.

~Niels