[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#894209: simple-cdd: Specifying '--dist' to build-simple-cdd creates ISO with wrong name

[Michael Firth]

Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.6.5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Hi,

When running 'build-simple-cdd' with the '--dist' option on Debian
Stretch, the resulting ISO file has the version number of the host
Debian system, not the built system. I haven't yet verified whether the
built CD is a fully correct version for the target distribution, but it
does include at least some packages for that distribution.

Example invocation:
$ build-simple-cdd --dist jessie

The expected CD images should be version 8.10, which is the latest
Jessie release, but instead the file created is called:

debian-9.4-amd64-CD-1.iso

But it looks like there are definitely some Jessie packages in the ISO,
from the ".list" file, which says it contains packages including:

mdadm_3.3.2-5+deb8u2_amd64.deb
linux-image-amd64_3.16+63+deb8u1_amd64.deb

And many others with deb8uX in their names

Is building a CD for an old distribution still supported?

Thanks

Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages simple-cdd depends on:
ii  dctrl-tools         2.24-2+b1
ii  debian-cd           3.1.20
ii  lsb-release         9.20161125
ii  python3             3.5.3-1
ii  python3-simple-cdd  0.6.5
ii  reprepro            5.1.1-1
ii  rsync               3.1.2-1+deb9u1
ii  wget                1.18-5+deb9u1

Versions of packages simple-cdd recommends:
ii  dose-distcheck  5.0.1-8+deb9u1

Versions of packages simple-cdd suggests:
ii  qemu-kvm  1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u3

-- no debconf information