[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1106298: gnome-boxes: Debian netinst for "Debian 12 x86_64" points to missing debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso

[Steve McIntyre]

Hey Simon,

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 07:32:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>Control: reassign -1 osinfo-db
>Control: affects -1 + gnome-boxes
>
>On Thu, 22 May 2025 at 19:45:16 +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote:
>> When choosing "Debian 12 x86_64" [in gnome-boxes]
>> in create "Download an OS" (the plus dropdown) I get this error:
>> Échec du téléchargement de "debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso" : Not
>> Found"
>> ie likely "Failure to download ... debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso : Not Found"
>> 
>> After a short search, I did not find the file where this iso location is defined.
>
>Looks like this comes from osinfo-db:
>https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian-12.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso&literal=1
>Does this need to be updated for every point release?
>
>debian-cd: is there a URL that this could point to without needing to specify
>a concrete version number? This is for machine consumption (gnome-boxes is a
>virtualization frontend) so it needs to be a direct link to the .iso, not a
>web page with human-readable text, but HTTP redirects would probably be OK.
>
>https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/ looked
>promising, but then the .iso filename still has the version number in it.

I'll see what we can do...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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