[Bug 1884538] Re: Removing debian-installer from groovy

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

> Is it possible to keep this package in universe because community
wants to build netboot image their own. That means keeping all the
dependencies as well. But they can just sync from debian.

Not really, no. Ubuntu d-i has significant improvements over the debian
one, and it would be a regression reverting to debian version of udebs.

Also, d-i from universe does not really work, as it has to be always be
build with a matching kernel ABI _and_ all of the userspace abi changes,
_at the same time_, implying hard interlock on our kernel release
cadence. As in, one has to rebuild d-i with every kernel upload and
ensure they migrate in sync with any in-progress ABI changes in the
release. It significantly hinders and deadlocks distribution
development. Whenver things are missmatched, d-i simply fails to
fetch/download/install udebs and fails with critical errors saying that
either kernel modules are not available or it cannot install partman
udebs rendering it useless.

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Title:
  Removing debian-installer from groovy

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Removing debian-installer from groovy

  Currently lp copies up publications, even if package is removed.

  Thus prior to removal of d-i i'd like to publish it three times, as
  empty uploads.

  Such that when the package is removed it doesn't come-back, or like we
  can just keep it empty in the archive.

  Blocked until https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/debian-cd/cd-boot-
  images-amd64/+merge/386094 is deployed

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