[Bug 1628149] Re: .disk/mini-info is the same for GA and SRU d-i builds

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

The fix is committed to yakkety branch of d-i and will be included in
the next yakkety upload. However, there is no change of behaviour in
yakkety at all. As point versions are only used in LTS releases / SRUs.
I guess I can make the next upload to have a weird version number to
test this in yakkety.

** Description changed:

- .disk/mini-info is the same for GA and SRU d-i builds
  
- however, it is in practice an arbitrary string and a full version number can be used.
- This way one can inspect .disk/mini-info and /var/log/installer/status to figure out which d-i build the installation was done from.
+ [Impact]
+ 
+  * d-i build does not contain a full version number, thus impossible to
+ identify which build a mini.ios, pxeboot, netboot builds belong to prior
+ or after the install.
+ 
+  * this makes it impossible to tell apart SRU builds of d-i
+ 
+  * The fix is to include a full version string, instead of stripped one,
+ during build
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 
+  * Unpack mini-iso, verify that .disk/mini-info has a full version
+ string including training .N number.
+ 
+  * Install system and check that debian-installer package in
+ /var/log/installer/status has full version number including training .N
+ number
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ 
+  * minimal, the version/buildstamp used is an arbitrary string, sans
+ trailing .N number.

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Title:
  .disk/mini-info is the same for GA and SRU d-i builds

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in debian-installer source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:

  [Impact]

   * d-i build does not contain a full version number, thus impossible
  to identify which build a mini.ios, pxeboot, netboot builds belong to
  prior or after the install.

   * this makes it impossible to tell apart SRU builds of d-i

   * The fix is to include a full version string, instead of stripped
  one, during build

  [Test Case]

   * Unpack mini-iso, verify that .disk/mini-info has a full version
  string including training .N number.

   * Install system and check that debian-installer package in
  /var/log/installer/status has full version number including training
  .N number

  [Regression Potential]

   * minimal, the version/buildstamp used is an arbitrary string, sans
  trailing .N number.

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