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

[Simon McVittie]

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.

Thanks,
     smcv