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Bug#1055694: initramfs-tools: After updating coreutils cp: not replacing in console when running update-initramfs

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1055694: initramfs-tools: After updating coreutils cp: not replacing in console when running update-initramfs
Date	2024-01-03 23:10 +0100
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 01:32:59AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>>|   'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their
>>|   action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i',
>
>Ouch! Nonzero? That’s harsh, and bad as it’s impossible to distinguish
>between error and declining to copy/move.
>
>There is a good example in diff(1) for how to handle this better:
>use distinct errorlevels for each case.
>
>Michael, could you perhaps throw that upstream?
>
>bye,
>//mirabilos
>-- 
>15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)

Where do we stand on this after coreutils 9.4-3? The autopkgtest is 
failing, but I think at this point that's bogus (because of the new 
deprecation warning), and the functionality is actually ok?

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Bug#1055694: initramfs-tools: After updating coreutils cp: not replacing in console when running update-initramfs Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-01-03 23:10 +0100
  Bug#1055694: initramfs-tools: After updating coreutils cp: not replacing in console when running update-initramfs Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2024-01-04 01:10 +0100

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