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Bug#859692: initramfs-tools: should depend on busybox

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On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:22 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.127
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> # dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64
> /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-amd64
> E: busybox or busybox-static, version 1:1.22.0-17~ or later, is required but not installed
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-amd64 with 1.
> run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools exited with return code 1
> 
> This package should depend on busybox|busybox-static instead of giving an
> error at runtime.
[...]

It's cryptsetup that depends on busybox, not initramfs-tools (which can
happily use klibc-utils).   But initramfs-tools now only works with at
least a certain version of busybox, and cryptsetup doesn't enforce
that.  There is a fix pending which is a versioned Breaks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

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Bug#859692: initramfs-tools: should depend on busybox Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2017-04-06 04:30 +0200
  Bug#859692: initramfs-tools: should depend on busybox Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-04-07 00:00 +0200
  Bug#859692: marked as done (initramfs-tools: should depend on  busybox) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-04-09 02:10 +0200

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