On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 01:02:03PM -0800, n...@cantrip.org wrote:
> I don't know if this is the same problem. I installed a new
> kernel (linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64) which would not finish booting
> because the initramfs image was unusable. It turned out that
> upgrading busybox from 1:1.1.3-3 to 1:1.19.3-4 enabled
> initramfs-tools to construct a working boot image. Probably
> initramfs-tools should depend on a later version of busybox
> than 1:1.01-3.
Please don't ask us to support etch, as hysterical laughing
may offend.
I think we should remove the versioned dependency altogether;
packages in testing/unstable may assume that their dependencies
are at least as new as stable.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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- Albert Camus
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