Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed

From	Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed
Date	2020-10-22 13:50 +0200
Message-ID	<B2Hgu-1WQ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.139
Severity: minor

No gzip in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

When COMPRESS=zstd is in the configuration file but zstd is not installed I get the above error.
It should say "No zstd"

-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18M Oct 22 22:30 /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-11-amd64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27M Oct 22 22:30 /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-12-amd64
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 29M Oct 22 22:35 /boot/initrd.img-5.9.0-1-amd64
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.19.0-12-amd64 root=UUID=6b40496e-ccb0-48fd-8764-167e82fcd779 ro security=selinux lockdown=confidentiality quiet

-- resume
RESUME=none
-- /proc/filesystems
	btrfs
	ext3
	ext2
	ext4
	xfs
	jfs
	msdos
	vfat
	minix
	hfs
	hfsplus
	qnx4
	ufs
	fuseblk

-- lsmod

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = no
do_bootloader = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=auto
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=zstd
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto
RUNSIZE=200M
FSTYPE=auto

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no

-- /etc/crypttab
sdb2_crypt UUID=c05678a9-8036-4614-8d13-4c6eb83da4d1 none luks

-- mkinitramfs hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/:

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks:
btrfs
cryptgnupg
cryptgnupg-sc
cryptkeyctl
cryptopensc
cryptpassdev
cryptroot
cryptroot-unlock
dmsetup
fsck
fuse
keymap
klibc-utils
kmod
ntfs_3g
resume
thermal
udev
zz-busybox


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Enforcing - Policy name: default

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools-core  0.139
ii  linux-base            4.6

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.8-6

-- no debconf information

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Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2020-10-22 13:50 +0200
  Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed Florian La Roche <florian.laroche@googlemail.com> - 2020-10-22 17:10 +0200
  Bug#972678: initramfs-tools: bad error message when zstd requested but not installed Florian La Roche <florian.laroche@googlemail.com> - 2020-10-22 17:10 +0200

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