Package: plymouth
Version: 0.9.5-3
Tags: patch
Dear developer,
Plymouth ships text themes, and graphical themes in a separate
plymouth-themes package, which have many more dependencies.
Installing only plymouth (without plymouth-themes) and selecting the
tribar theme currently makes update-initramfs fail because it can't find
the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (shipped with fontconfig-config), which
tribar doesn't need at all, since it's a actually a text theme
(correctly shipped with the main plymouth package, and not in the
plymouth-themes package).
This probably stayed off the radar since plymouth is rarely installed on
a system without a desktop (and thus, no fonts). That's why the
probability to mess up the initramfs is quite low, but it's nevertheless
a possibility.
This can be easily fixed by adding tribar to the dependencies test in
the initramfs hook (see provided patch).
I tested it in a VM on a standard headless system (bullseye), with and
without encrypted root; the text prompts for entering the passphrase and
reporting success or failure are correctly displayed.
Regards,
--
Raphaël Halimi
--- debian/local/plymouth.hook.orig 2023-02-01 18:20:20.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/local/plymouth.hook 2023-05-13 19:49:20.260777891 +0200
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
fi
case "${THEME_NAME}" in
- text|details)
+ text|details|tribar)
;;
