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 11:20:01 +0200
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Le 18/07/24 à 10:54, Diederik de Haas a écrit :
> Control: severity -1 minor
>
> [...]
> I fail to see how this is any package's problem.
> Your boot partition is too small to perform the requested operation.
>
> During compression it needs the space for the uncompressed files and
> the space needed for the compressed archive, so it generally needs
> (much) more space then it finally needs as the uncompressed files will
> be removed again once the compressed archive is complete.
>
> Solution: make your boot partition larger. Or remove older/other
> kernels, but IMO this will only delay the inevitable.
>
> Reducing severity to minor, but I actually think it should just be closed.
>
> On 18 Jul 2024 10:17:20 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> wrote:
>> It's related to firmware-misc-nonfree that is now pulling
>> firmware-nvidia-graphics that contains a lot of (non-free) firmwares.
>>
>> With firmware-nvidia-graphics installed, my initramfs grows to something
>> like 200M compared to 64M without it.
> The firmware-nvidia-graphics package was created exactly because its size
> got big(ger) and (partially therefor) deserved its own package instead of
> making the firmware-misc-nonfree extremely large. That package is meant
> for 'the other' firmware which don't deserve their own package.
> The firmware-nvidia-graphics is recommended by firmware-misc-nonfree as
> the nvidia graphics firmware files were moved from the latter to the former.
>
> Solution: If you don't need firmware-nvidia-graphics, don't install it.
> If you do need it, but don't have the space for it, then increase your
> storage size.

Well you change expectation from users that have firmware-misc-nonfree 
installed by pulling that huge package

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

The /boot partition size I've here is the default one from the 
debian-installer

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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
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