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  • source: debian-installer (main)
  • version: 20250803+deb13u2
  • maintainer: Debian Install System Team (archive) (DMD)
  • uploaders: Cyril Brulebois [DMD]
  • arch: any
  • std-ver: 4.3.0
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 20210731+deb11u12
  • o-o-p-u: 20210731+deb11u12
  • oldstable: 20230607+deb12u12
  • stable: 20250803+deb13u2
  • stable-p-u: 20250803+deb13u2
  • testing: 20250803+deb13u2
  • unstable: 20250803+deb13u2
versioned links
  • 20210731+deb11u12: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 20230607+deb12u12: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 20250803+deb13u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • debian-installer (457 bugs: 0, 316, 141, 0)
action needed
16 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal
The BTS contains patches fixing 16 bugs (19 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.
Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-11-19 12:00
Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal
The packages that debian-installer depends on which need a new maintainer are:
  • devio (#1050466)
    • Build-Depends: devio
  • docbook-xml (#802368)
    • Build-Depends: docbook-xml
  • docbook-xsl (#802370)
    • Build-Depends: docbook-xsl
Created: 2023-08-03 Last update: 2025-11-19 09:31
16 open merge requests in Salsa normal
There are 16 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.
Created: 2025-08-19 Last update: 2025-11-17 14:31
version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal
vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 20250804, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:
commit 3537f2948d7383ae84a7191e98fbdb9fc6f2bf78
Merge: 64f6b14d 354d28fc
Author: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Nov 17 12:45:24 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'wip/smcv/not-13' into 'master'
    
    artwork: Drop the version from the Ceratopsian and Homeworld boot screens
    
    See merge request installer-team/debian-installer!71

commit 64f6b14dcf44c40ed2338487f5ad254dda7e94da
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 16 18:48:23 2025 +0100

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit d0d850705da3f7777cbf451667eb3d39b62e697f
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 16 18:47:04 2025 +0100

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.17.8+deb14.

commit bded2d17b979131f69fff5326a1784b09e15207b
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Nov 8 03:24:44 2025 +0100

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 98559a3e5148ca40d5f97b668afd5a886fda0af6
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Nov 8 03:24:22 2025 +0100

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.17.7+deb14+1.

commit 354d28fc440c56cb3a090b1c05a744f39be29d1e
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 21 10:55:46 2025 +0100

    Update changelog
    
    Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

commit f7ae7c0979990eda00924bb894eae6f933ec3763
Author: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 21 10:46:58 2025 +0100

    artwork: Drop the version from the Ceratopsian and Homeworld boot screens
    
    It's misleading for the d-i snapshot that will install testing/unstable
    to identify itself as Debian 13. Until Debian 14 artwork becomes
    available, delete the "13" from the Ceratopsian boot splash artwork,
    and move the logotype across to compensate.
    
    Similarly, remove the "11" from the Homeworld artwork for completeness.
    
    This is analogous to commit 074ca9ca "Drop the “12” version from the
    Emerald boot screen", but for forky.
    
    Closes: #1118488
    Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>

commit 7e074b207ceeb8740671af1492cdaf7aaf23ffa2
Author: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Aug 30 07:59:22 2025 +0200

    Make tarball reproducible
    
    As discussed in #1091668
    
    (cherry picked from commit 11d7ef079f8363e47fe7abe4749fed8917f017b0)
    Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>

commit de1fa9536e63b794344161184eec875fd6b37f53
Author: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 28 15:02:39 2025 +0200

    Use fakeroot instead of Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets
    
    This makes the package not FTBFS with debrebuild and on
    reproduce.debian.net.
    
    debrebuild uses the buildinfo file generated on the buildd to reproduce
    the package. But the buildinfo file does not safe the version of the
    fakeroot package used so it can't use that and uses the unshare root
    instead. unshare root can't handle mknod as done in build/Makefile so
    the package FTBFS there. Instead this depends on fakeroot and rely on
    build/Makefile re executing with fakeroot.
    
    This reverts 680ab3ddc.
    
    (cherry picked from commit 536db97fe06401e82be0ad9015f3c76866aae996)
    Signed-off-by: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>

commit 6db5b4721e217fb097131e74231daaed402cda37
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 2 02:38:54 2025 +0100

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 255ed688332576c033ac3ad6cde7d96479abac54
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 2 02:38:17 2025 +0100

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.17.6+deb14.

commit ea76952276629671de826c02bfdf3d479007647b
Author: Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 28 17:56:04 2025 +0100

    hurd boot menu: Explicit which console is getting used

commit 7b1a80ee36e8bc6ed87ec4b458ccc719c7eac63f
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 18 19:39:13 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 611312f2d44684a291373df71996e506d17f5cd9
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 18 19:38:38 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.12+deb14+1.

commit 8b40946e82ac784e297fa583398ed98efc562796
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 15 01:32:22 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 9b0d3b40c9b505e6054d22683075fe29b7f058be
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 15 01:32:08 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.12+deb14.

commit 2546c38900d6ee6b290bdb99995e4380cfc752c8
Author: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 8 10:57:43 2025 +0200

    add a `pkg.debian-installer.miniiso` profile
    
    This enables salsa-CI to build a mini-ISO by specifying a profile.

commit fa738270c7f373501a9445851243ba7635b094cf
Author: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 08:15:39 2025 +0200

    salsa-ci: avoid OQA_JOBSTOCLONE being set to '$OQA_JOBSTOCLONE'

commit 75c5acd5cd2c67fe3934c1a13cf9bb477348e238
Author: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 6 10:14:38 2025 +0200

    salsa-ci: unshare needs `--enable-network` to build D-I
    
    This is required to download udebs from the debian repo.

commit cb41f38e7959f4dcb745aa2f848148b1db613f1a
Author: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 07:58:29 2025 +0200

    salsa-ci: don't use sed's -E because $avail_abi might include '+'

commit f0a891c9b88ffab7952aba4ccac8c21e0b5ae2d7
Author: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 1 21:50:02 2025 +0200

    salsa-ci: deal with +deb... versions for the kernel

commit 8595d290379695f1ae76b5c8dcf67f187fb329f4
Author: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 25 08:50:47 2025 +0200

    salsa-ci: pipeline's extract-source job was removed

commit 321a592e2a325c368abd52f10bd1deffd00dacde
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 7 22:22:14 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 7d46fd5818c6d193092b77aea15a971f6018df3a
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 7 22:22:04 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.11+deb14.

commit 3464488b58a58547dc2bfcbb75f3de6fba1a4986
Merge: 663e31fc 59d13b32
Author: Holger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 29 21:22:52 2025 +0200

    Merge branch 'testers-rip' into 'master'
    
    Annotate testers who have died
    
    See merge request installer-team/debian-installer!64

commit 663e31fc21ae9e65868d863526d438fb548e0092
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 29 05:53:49 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 822c2c2f5adc0623b70920659ef7669c5bcfd584
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 29 05:40:28 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.9+deb14.

commit 6a889d429cc7eff8fb32bd8697f3460ecea38176
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 22 05:02:56 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 96875a641c1393c08ad5f56bb127cac7194710b2
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 22 05:02:36 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.8+deb14.

commit e0aa33cc94723f6b5a110ca15945f4804ac7d8b3
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 12 23:43:06 2025 +0200

    Clear CHECK_MINIMAL_VERSION.

commit bf782a417a0e5a55b51bdc57a2523657e97e37a8
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 12 23:42:42 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 062cdbe03d4576e780bc363430fa76b209907147
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 12 23:42:23 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.7+deb14.

commit 2cd33bc31e66ac8fc378e46998b10d65d517e26e
Author: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 09:16:52 2025 +0200

    Changelog entry for MR66

commit 6093a0dc7aba375f9813e098c8a5057ab3958cdf
Merge: 6d5b4863 0e139bb1
Author: Holger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 09:11:07 2025 +0200

    Merge branch 'pham/partman-doc' into 'master'
    
    Update doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt
    
    See merge request installer-team/debian-installer!66

commit 6d5b4863fc841df5b4b075bd46bac440e5ecbc3c
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 06:07:30 2025 +0200

    Adjust linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 4aac40f71e5e84aadce28fb08de84796e075fef9
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 06:06:58 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.5+deb14.

commit 755ecc644565b103e8eb7aaf2f27799632a9d727
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 27 10:25:53 2025 +0200

    Bump (temporary) linux-image build-deps accordingly.

commit 1fc68f77a3b6d1b191374ad76f3badb719cd2a83
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Aug 27 10:25:34 2025 +0200

    Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.16.3+deb14.

commit 5f8888f0dfa11fdd577aee209a935161aa3663ff
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 14 00:21:35 2025 +0200

    Document backstory around fakeroot.
    
    Link: https://salsa.debian.org/dsa-team/mirror/dsa-puppet/-/commit/234b6db2c041cd605ade7bb7ef9c6f77d4841726

commit d495f01afe467d054f6fd93dffc8cc22d00d106d
Author: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 14 00:00:03 2025 +0200

    Add fakeroot to Build-Depends.
    
    Let's see if that helps getting daily builds back on track, which have
    been failing since 2025-08-11.

commit 0e139bb161b3e7225bf6dc705f79f430feb58a6c
Author: Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Date:   Sat Jul 19 23:49:54 2025 +0200

    Update doc/devel/partman-auto-recipe.txt
    
    Add clarifications about partition size limits.
    Add missing internal specifier descriptions.
    Update default filesystem is now ext4 for linux.
    Update examples and minimum installation size.

commit 59d13b3283d53b05805c45e8e696a44330800151
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Jun 26 17:56:04 2025 +0100

    Annotate testers who have died
    
    This file hasn't been updated for ages anyway, but it seems to sort of
    do double duty as a contact list and as credits, so I didn't quite want
    to remove names from it.
Created: 2025-08-13 Last update: 2025-11-17 14:31
lintian reports 2 warnings normal
Lintian reports 2 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
Created: 2025-11-15 Last update: 2025-11-15 23:00
Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist
The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.3.0).
Created: 2019-07-08 Last update: 2025-11-15 18:31
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  • [2025-11-16] debian-installer 20250803+deb13u2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-11-12] Accepted debian-installer 20250803+deb13u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-09-07] debian-installer 20250803+deb13u1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-09-02] Accepted debian-installer 20250803+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-09-01] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u12 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-08-05] debian-installer 20250803 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-08-03] Accepted debian-installer 20250803 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-07-02] debian-installer 20250701 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-07-01] Accepted debian-installer 20250701 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-07-01] Accepted debian-installer 20250630 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-05-16] debian-installer 20250515 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-05-15] Accepted debian-installer 20250515 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-05-13] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u11 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-03-10] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u10 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2025-01-07] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u9 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-12-29] debian-installer 20241227 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-12-28] Accepted debian-installer 20241227 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-11-04] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u8 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-09-16] debian-installer 20240914 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-09-14] Accepted debian-installer 20240914 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-08-28] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u7 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-08-27] Accepted debian-installer 20210731+deb11u12 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-06-30] debian-installer 20230607+deb12u6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-06-24] Accepted debian-installer 20210731+deb11u11 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-06-24] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u6 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-02-05] Accepted debian-installer 20210731+deb11u10 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2024-02-05] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u5 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2023-12-11] debian-installer 20230607+deb12u4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-12-10] Accepted debian-installer 20230607+deb12u4 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Cyril Brulebois)
  • [2023-12-10] debian-installer 20230607+deb12u3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
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