677415f6d7 (2007) in v1.0~a2-1 added a hack
relating to the loop-aes-utils package and losetup. this commit bundled
a bunch of changes, it was not specific to the hack, and so info about the
hack is limited to a brief comment included within the related change in
defaults:
```
# Workaround for loop-aes-utils divertion
# (loop-aes-utils' losetup lacks features).
```
though it is very similar to the removed fdisk hack in that it seems that
one package may replace a binary from another, moving the original to a
new location, and this hack gives the user the opportunity to select the
original instead of the one put in its place, for use in LB.
the comment mentions a package called loop-aes-utils as being the package
that performs such a diversion, and that the need for the hack was that
losetup itself lacked features, presumably encryption support, and it is
clear that it is the losetup binary that is the focus of the diversion.
looking into the history of loop-aes-utils a little, this package was
dropped from debian back in 2012 (#680748), favouring encrytion support of
dm-crypt/cryptsetup.
double checking file contents of packages, only the mount package carries
an /sbin/losetup file, so presumably this means that dm-setup/cryptsetup
do not perform such a diversion of losetup (i.e. their use is exclusively
done directly).
since the possible diversion is simply gone, that completely removes any
point in having the hack of giving users choice between losetup and the
diverted one. so let's remove this obsolete hack...
8321653cb3 (from 2007) introduced a hack to
work around bug #445304 in gnu-fdisk for users who may have replaced fdisk
with the classic gnu version. the hack allowed users to select an alternate
fdisk binary to use to work around the buggy binary.
bug #445304 is marked as found in v1.0-1 and fixed in v1.2-1, though may
have been fixe din v1.1. it was marked fixed in 2009.
checking the package archive, gnu-fdisk does not actually exist anymore
in debian, with one exception - it is available for arm64 on sid via
debports, and that version is 1.3 so thus includes the necessary fix
anyway.
it is thus pointless now that we still carry this hack.
Gbp-Dch: Short
Current versions of the project files are built upon versions published
and licensed by Daniel Baumann, but are modified copies of those files and
thus need to be marked as such per licensing requirements (afaik he did
not pass along ownership / licensing rights to anyone when he left the
project). We should also be careful to not be misrepresenting such
modified copies as being attributed to Daniel.
Adding a new copyright line referring to "The Debian Live team" should
suffice for this.
The authorship block in man pages has also similarly been updated.
Notes:
- tweaked a copy of daniel copyright lines stating 2014 instead of 2015.
both of these cases were in files that i had personally introduced in
some of my past merged commits that moved some code around. i don't know
why they stated 2014.
- binary_onie was introduced in 2018, so that has a 2018 date instead of
2016 unlike the rest.
- 'efi-image' is a 3rd-party (Canonical Ltd) work that we bundle, but it
has been modified by 674794a8f4 and
36a3ba7634 so I similarly added a
debian live copyright line.
- 'grub-cpmodules' is similar. it was only changed by the indentation fix
of 36a3ba7634 but modification is
modification, and this does help cover any possible future changes that
might be made.
`false` and `none` make no sense as choices for this option. Here we
replace `false` with `none`, and remove `true`.
Note that `true` was treated as an alias for netinst (see the changes to
source_disk and and binary_disk).
For backwards compatibility we still allow `true` and `false` by converting
them to `netinst` and `none` respectively, whilst printing a warning to
encourage users to move to `netinst`/`none`.
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952864
`lb build` is a top level command and the one most users will want. listing
the secondary component build stages alongside it just confuses things.
here we clarify things by moving the second-level build stages to a
separate list.
Gbp-Dch: Short
This makes it possible to build an image against a first distribution
(--distribution-chroot) and have the resulting image point to another
distribution (--distribution-binary). We can use this to build against a
snapshot and have the result use the original distribution that was
snapshotted.
Closes: #888507
Lyndon Brown
Luca Boccassi
Raphaël Hertzog
Roland Clobus