[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] What happened to daily builds of Raspberry Pi Debian images?

[Cyril Brulebois]

Cyril Brulebois <cyril at debamax.com> (2024-07-13):
> https://raspi.debian.net/daily-images/ seems to be stuck a very long
> while ago… And I'm not talking about the intro about Debian 10 and 11
> (which should be Debian 11 and 12 now).
> 
> Both sets of bullseye and bookworm images date back to end of March, and
> it doesn't seem to be an issue regarding the timestamps indicated on the
> website, as a look into a random image's /etc/ confirms those timestamps.
> 
> trixie is even worse, dating back to November last year. While that one
> might have troubles to build given the various transitions, I'd find it
> weird it never built again since then (and even if that was the case I'd
> hope that to be turned into some bug report and fixed at some point).
> 
> 
> Having outdated images is quite damaging to endusers, as they don't get
> all the security bugfixes that have been published these past few
> months, including the nasty SSH one lately.
> 
> While I *really* don't have too much free time (quite the contrary), I
> believe I already volunteered to help in that area in the past…

Ping!

Last builds for Debian 11 and Debian 12 are from March, last builds for
Debian 13 go back all the way to last year!

> I would find it slightly annoying to have to build images on our end
> instead of just repack(er)ing them (I'm helping with the PiRogue Tool
> Suite project – https://pts-project.org/) even if I would know how to
> do that obviously.

I've implemented that for PTS a few days after the initial mail…

> But I would definitely hate it if I had to start recommending against
> Debian-provided Pi images, given all the efforts we've collectively
> put into it over the years.

… but that's still true!
-- 
Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/
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