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Author: Steve McIntyre
Revision Date: 2012-09-26 01:09:13 UTC

[ Steve McIntyre ]
* Merge x86 EFI support from the EFI_support branch (Closes: #658352)
  + Pull in grub-efi for amd64 and i386
  + Lots of extra code in boot-x86:
    - pull grub EFI pieces out of the latest debian-cd_info.tar.gz
      blobs in d-i, if they're there. If so, use them to make x86 images
      bootable via EFI (both via CD and USB)
    - parse the isolinux menus already provided in the d-i build and
      generate equivalent grub menus, complete with themes for a
      reasonable layout with graphics and titles.
    - depending more and more on xorriso rather than genisoimage...
* Add version-tracking into dependency sorting. Closes: #687949)
  + Use/parse output from a newer version of apt so that "apt-cache
    depends" will include version information on dependencies.
  + All tracking of packages now include versions, so we pass around
    hashes of {package name, comparison op, version} everywhere instead
    of simply passing package names as strings.
  + Add the APT::Cache::ShowVersion=1 option to apt-cache calls to
    turn on version reporting. Needs a locally-patched version of apt
    *for now*, but expecting that to be fixed for the Wheezy
    release. The new code degrades gracefully if version info is not
    available.
  + Add a dependency on libdpkg-perl for version comparison code.
* Improve architecture support in which_deb. Closes: #695244
  + Check all the architectures available in the archive if we're not
    specifically told which to use (e.g. on source builds)
  + If we fail to find packages/sources for the specified package, say
    so and bail out properly.
* Switch boot-x86 to depend on xorriso totally rather than genisoimage
  now; working UEFI support needs it. We also need very recent (1.2.6)
  xorriso for various bugfixes, ideally.

Author: Steve McIntyre
Revision Date: 2012-09-26 01:09:13 UTC

[ Steve McIntyre ]
* Merge x86 EFI support from the EFI_support branch (Closes: #658352)
  + Pull in grub-efi for amd64 and i386
  + Lots of extra code in boot-x86:
    - pull grub EFI pieces out of the latest debian-cd_info.tar.gz
      blobs in d-i, if they're there. If so, use them to make x86 images
      bootable via EFI (both via CD and USB)
    - parse the isolinux menus already provided in the d-i build and
      generate equivalent grub menus, complete with themes for a
      reasonable layout with graphics and titles.
    - depending more and more on xorriso rather than genisoimage...
* Add version-tracking into dependency sorting. Closes: #687949)
  + Use/parse output from a newer version of apt so that "apt-cache
    depends" will include version information on dependencies.
  + All tracking of packages now include versions, so we pass around
    hashes of {package name, comparison op, version} everywhere instead
    of simply passing package names as strings.
  + Add the APT::Cache::ShowVersion=1 option to apt-cache calls to
    turn on version reporting. Needs a locally-patched version of apt
    *for now*, but expecting that to be fixed for the Wheezy
    release. The new code degrades gracefully if version info is not
    available.
  + Add a dependency on libdpkg-perl for version comparison code.
* Improve architecture support in which_deb. Closes: #695244
  + Check all the architectures available in the archive if we're not
    specifically told which to use (e.g. on source builds)
  + If we fail to find packages/sources for the specified package, say
    so and bail out properly.
* Switch boot-x86 to depend on xorriso totally rather than genisoimage
  now; working UEFI support needs it. We also need very recent (1.2.6)
  xorriso for various bugfixes, ideally.