RE: obsolete isolinux.bin in testing 2008-04-15 weekly build

From: bruce robson <bns_robson(at)hotmail.com>
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 18:38:51 EDT

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> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:29:12 +0100
> From: steve@einval.com
> To: bns_robson@hotmail.com
> CC: debian-cd@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: obsolete isolinux.bin in testing 2008-04-15 weekly build
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:06:14PM +0000, bruce robson wrote:
> >
> >The version of syslinux in testing changed to 2:3.63+dfsg-1 from
> >2:3.61+dfsg-1 on the 13th of April http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/syslinux/news/20080413T223925Z.html
> >
> >However I used jigdo to get the 15th of April KDE CD iso image and
> >the isolinux/isolinux.bin file within the image is from 2:3.61+dfsg-1
> >
> >The jigdo file I used was
> >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.jigdo
> >
> >I haven't checked the DVD images or other CD images.
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> We don't automatically go for new versions of syslinux in the CD build
> process, and 2:3.61 is the last one I pulled in by hand. If there are
> good reasons to move forward, I'll do so. Do you know of any off-hand?
>

I have a computer that doesn't boot the Debian testing CDs. I got upstream syslinux changed to cope with the faulty BIOS in my computer. This change is in 3.62 and later. Hence I would like the build to use 2:3.63+dfsg-1 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465320

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