Bug#926539: Bug#987441: s390x installation bugs

From	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Bug#926539: Bug#987441: s390x installation bugs
Date	2021-05-03 09:10 +0200
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Hi!

On 5/3/21 8:36 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> From skimming through the bug log, it seems it was initially a sparc64
> problem, that was fixed in the kernel (inconsistent naming) eventually.

Correct.

> The same issue exists on s390x but isn't apparently going to get fixed
> so we need to have d-i be smarter (hence the merge request)?

Seems so.

> I'd suggest at least retitling the bug report to mention s390x (release
> arch, affected) instead of sparc64 (port arch, no longer affected), to
> lower the chances people could overlook this issue, thinking it's only
> about a port arch.

We could also unmerge #926539 and #961056 again, then close the former bug
which was sparc64-specific.

Adrian

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Bug#926539: Bug#987441: s390x installation bugs John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2021-05-03 09:10 +0200
  Bug#926539: Bug#987441: s390x installation bugs Valentin Vidic <vvidic@debian.org> - 2021-05-03 12:30 +0200

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