Control: tag -1 pending On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 09:50 +0200, intrigeri wrote: [...] > I see no obvious perfect solution. The options I can think of are: > > 1. Keeping things as-is: > - Affected systems: partial upgrades, systems where Recommends were > manually disabled; I don't think that full upgrades from Jessie > to Stretch are affected, since the initramfs is updated via > a dpkg trigger, after all packages have been upgraded. > In other words, only advanced users are affected. > - Impact: initramfs is not generated, and APT/dpkg exit with an > error message that tells the user what the problem is, and > suggests how to fix it. > > 2. Making initramfs-tools-core depend on a new enough busybox: pulls > busybox (installed size 746 kB, no dependencies besides libc6) even > on systems that don't need it, i.e. those that haven't cryptsetup > installed, and haven't busybox already pulled by anything else. [...]
How about "Breaks: busybox (<< 1:1.22.0-17~)"? I think that does the job. I've actually committed that change but failed to upload yet. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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