On Thu, 2026-09-10 at 13:09 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 9/9/26 02:15, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > Given this and maybe similar use-cases, I propose a less radical change: > > Instead of removing busybox-static, keep the package, but rename the > > binary to busybox-static and drop the initramfs-tool hook. That way > > busybox and busybox-static will become co-installable. There are a few > > package that need to change their Depends/Recommends from > > "busybox | busybox-static" to just "busybox". > Yes, this is what I plan to do. > > Before this can be done, I've #1147076 against virtme-ng. > > And - as stated above - switch all other Depends/Recommends to just > busybox.
I plan to do the same in Ubuntu and assembled a list of affected packages in https://launchpad.net/bugs/2167087 that needs their Depends/Recommends adjusted. In case you have the busybox change prepared, could you share it so that I can use it in Ubuntu to not diverge here. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
