partimage is blacklisted in Debian, however they also have a binary available (created through a different process than the one Ubuntu uses). Ubuntu has it blacklisted for the arch because Debian does, thus Ubuntu's build system does not grab the source code and compile a binary for the arch.
That problem was fixed some time ago.
The issue is all explained at http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 572641
partimage is blacklisted in Debian, however they also have a binary available (created through a different process than the one Ubuntu uses). Ubuntu has it blacklisted for the arch because Debian does, thus Ubuntu's build system does not grab the source code and compile a binary for the arch.