syncing libdebian-installer

Dann Frazier dann.frazier at canonical.com
Fri Jan 30 23:29:47 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Dann Frazier
<dann.frazier at canonical.com> wrote:
> hey,
> I'm working on adding arm64-efi support to vivid, and that requires
> some changes from Debian. I've prepared a merge proposal to do that
> sync, which also does away with a bit of cruft we've built up in the
> Ubuntu diff:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~dannf/libdebian-installer/debsync/+merge/247903
>
> I'd appreciate any reviews before I upload. Points of interest on the
> ARM side are that this drops some subarchs that required flavor
> kernels that are no longer supported in vivid (armadaxp, exynos5,
> keystone and dove), and that it also includes the behavior change from
> Debian that unmatched systems are now "armhf/generic" instead of
> "armhf/unknown".
>
> This would reduce our diff against Debian to the following. Hopefully
> the ppc stuff can just be merged, but I don't know what to do about
> the OMAP hunk.

fyi, now merged & uploaded.

 -dann



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