Package: open-iscsi-udeb Version: 2.0.874-2 Severity: important Affects: debian-installer X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, k...@debian.org Control: tags -1 + stretch sid
Dear Maintainer, As reported on debian-release@/debian-boot@ recently, a recent change in how the initiator name was generated in the package causes finish-install to assume iSCSI is always used. This has two consequences: - update-initramfs -k all -u is needlessly called on all Debian installations, even those without iSCSI (looses a couple of seconds time, on _really_ slow systems possibly even a minute) - clutters every new installation with /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi, even those that don't use iSCSI This is harmless (nothing breaks), but can be annoying. Also, for Buster this risks that other installer components start relying on the fact that the initramfs is regenerated late in the installation process - which they shouldn't. It probably hasn't affected anything in Stretch yet, but this should be fixed really early in the Buster cycle to avoid any such problems. KiBi said that for Stretch this should be fixed in the first point release, so the plan is to open a p-u bug once this is fixed in sid after the Stretch release. Regards, Christian -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)