dear fsmithred I hope you don't mind I subscribed you here in another
public list which is more focused on devuan's development. you'll find
some of the old and new usual suspects.

regarding your request on xorriso I confirm that the easy-build script
reports the same warning, which can be safely ignored:

"Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree"

over all firmware files.

it does not show the arguments used and is so convoluted that is
absolutely not trivial to extract them, I'll do further research on
that.

we have currently a problem on the CD and DVD iso which we were
testing yesting yesterday: they do not include the new up-to-date
packages that the NETINST iso installs, hence the desktop comes
without icons and the grub misses the theme. Daniel can you have a
stab trying to see what is wrong exactly there?

to be sure we also restarted an apt-mirror of auto.mirror.do which is
now almost complete, but doesn't work using it (is the MIRROR
configuration in /usr/share/debian-cd/CONF.sh)

I will most likely be missing the meeting tonight as I need to commute
to bruxelles in the evening, will try but quite sure the times won't
coincide for me.

ciao!