Bug#1076539: plymouth: Updating plymouth fails with "No space left on device"

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Subject	Bug#1076539: plymouth: Updating plymouth fails with "No space left on device"
Date	Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:50:01 +0200
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On Thursday, 18 July 2024 11:11:23 CEST Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Well you change expectation from users that have firmware-misc-nonfree
> installed by pulling that huge package

I fail to see how. If those files weren't split into their own packages, the 
updated/new firmware-misc-nonfree would've contained the firmware of
the 'old' misc-nonfree + nvidia-graphics + intel-graphics + mediatek/ralink + 
new files that would otherwise have been added for misc-nonfree.

See also https://bugs.debian.org/1057786

> IMVHO, a lot of people with firmware-misc-nonfree installed will
> experience an issue when updating.

You should've seen a NEWS entry informing you of the changes.
If that didn't happen, that's a problem/bug.

On donderdag 18 juli 2024 11:14:35 CEST you wrote:
> On 18.07.24 11:11, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > The /boot partition size I've here is the default one from the
> > debian-installer
> 
> This seems to be the core of the problem. In my case it is 500MB, and
> was the default from the install. So many users will be affected by default.

I do agree with that. And the kernel size growing bigger contributed to that 
becoming a (bigger) problem. (There are bug reports about that)

When I set up my system, I made /boot 2G because I foresaw this problem
(and I intended to do a bit more with kernels then the average user).

I think a very valid argument can be made to change the default in d-i,
but to be blunt: you *accepted* the *defaults*.

But most people are probably not as experienced with Debian as the two of you 
which in turn would make me point out the same problem, but be more subtle/
gentle about it.

Still, "No space left on device" is not a packaging problem.

Cheers,
  Diederik

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Bug#1076539: plymouth: Updating plymouth fails with "No space left on device" Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2024-07-18 11:20 +0200
  Bug#1076539: plymouth: Updating plymouth fails with "No space left on device" Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2024-07-18 11:50 +0200

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