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Bug#932854: Missing dependency for initramfs-tools-core

From Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#932854: Missing dependency for initramfs-tools-core
Date 2019-07-24 08:10 +0200
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Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools-core: Please depend on logsave

On 2019-07-23 22:37 +0000, Colin Booth wrote:

> Package: initramfs-tools-core
> Version: 0.133
>
> The functions file shipped with initramfs-tools-core version 0.133 and
> earlier contains a call to logsave(8) in the _checkfs_once() function.
> The latest version of e2fsprogs (1.45.3-1) has removed logsave and it is
> now shipped in a separate package. This causes a surprise drop into an
> initramfs shell as the fsck line fails.

In order not to instantly break initramfs-tools and thus booting the
system, the new e2fsprogs package should have depended on logsave rather
than just suggesting it.  See #932861 and friends.

> Please add a Depends: logsave in the next shipping version of
> initramfs-tools-core or update the _checkfs_once function to not require
> that program.

ITSM that depending on logsave | e2fsprogs (<< 1.45.3) is sufficient, and
probably also necessary.

Cheers,
       Sven

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Bug#932854: Missing dependency for initramfs-tools-core Colin Booth <colin@heliocat.net> - 2019-07-24 00:40 +0200
  Bug#932854: Missing dependency for initramfs-tools-core "Miguel A. Vallejo" <ea4eoz@gmail.com> - 2019-07-24 01:10 +0200
  Bug#932854: Missing dependency for initramfs-tools-core Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-07-24 08:10 +0200
  Bug#932854: initramfs-tools-core: Please depend on logsave rharwood@club.cc.cmu.edu - 2019-07-25 18:40 +0200
    Bug#932854: initramfs-tools-core: Please depend on logsave Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-07-25 18:50 +0200

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