>>>>> "BH" == Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: BH> You've convinced me that this isn't a good way to handle the change.
Glad! BH> What I intend to do is to add a third option, BUSYBOX=auto, with the BH> old semantics of BUSYBOX=y, and make that the default. On upgrade you BH> may be prompted to resolve conflicts in the configuration file, but BH> otherwise nothing will break. BH> In the case that there are configuration hooks that set BUSYBOX=y, BH> mkinitramfs will still refuse to create a broken initramfs. OK... I don't know about the details. I'm just happy the standards will stay the same.