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Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't

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On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 09:50 +0200, intrigeri wrote:
[...]
> I see no obvious perfect solution. The options I can think of are:
>
> 1. Keeping things as-is:
>    - Affected systems: partial upgrades, systems where Recommends were
>      manually disabled; I don't think that full upgrades from Jessie
>      to Stretch are affected, since the initramfs is updated via
>      a dpkg trigger, after all packages have been upgraded.
>      In other words, only advanced users are affected.
>    - Impact: initramfs is not generated, and APT/dpkg exit with an
>      error message that tells the user what the problem is, and
>      suggests how to fix it.
> 
> 2. Making initramfs-tools-core depend on a new enough busybox: pulls
>    busybox (installed size 746 kB, no dependencies besides libc6) even
>    on systems that don't need it, i.e. those that haven't cryptsetup
>    installed, and haven't busybox already pulled by anything else.
[...]

How about "Breaks: busybox (<< 1:1.22.0-17~)"?  I think that does the
job.  I've actually committed that change but failed to upload yet.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious.

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Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't Jan Echternach <jan@goneko.de> - 2017-02-14 01:30 +0100
  Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> - 2017-04-02 10:00 +0200
    Bug#855094: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@guilhem.org> - 2017-04-02 10:20 +0200
      Bug#855094: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> - 2017-04-02 10:50 +0200
    Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-04-02 15:40 +0200
      Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-04-02 16:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#855094: initramfs-tools-core: Error on upgrade  if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-04-02 15:40 +0200
  Bug#855094: marked as done (initramfs-tools-core: Error on  upgrade if cryptsetup is installed, but a current busybox isn't) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-04-09 02:10 +0200

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