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Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed

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Control: retitle -1 busybox/klibc selection should remain automatic for systems that don't need busybox

On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 10:10 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > > > > > "BH" == Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> > > OK, but you are still going to run into problems if the user has set
> > > 
> > > # apt-config dump|egrep Rec\|Sugg
> > > APT::Install-Recommends "false";
> > > APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> 
> BH> Users that do that need to accept that they will encounter errors like
> BH> this.
> 
> OK, but I am sure yours is the very first package to "lower the
> barrier" of
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
> in that way.
> 
> In the past an entire working Debian could be completely installed counting on only
> Depends.
> 
> Or maybe
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
> needs to have some additional explanation about special cases like this?

You've convinced me that this isn't a good way to handle the change.

What I intend to do is to add a third option, BUSYBOX=auto, with the
old semantics of BUSYBOX=y, and make that the default.  On upgrade you
may be prompted to resolve conflicts in the configuration file, but
otherwise nothing will break.

In the case that there are configuration hooks that set BUSYBOX=y,
mkinitramfs will still refuse to create a broken initramfs.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.

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Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> - 2015-12-30 03:20 +0100
  Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-12-31 04:40 +0100

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