Ubuntu's busybox and busybox-static are no use in an initramfs, so instead of listing all variants of busybox, check for Ubuntu derivatives at build time.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
debian/control | 2 +-
debian/rules | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f31dd05..9263e1c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Description: generic modular initramfs generator (automation)
Package: initramfs-tools-core
Architecture: all
Multi-Arch: foreign
-Recommends: busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-initramfs | busybox-static
+Recommends: ${busybox:Recommends}
Depends: klibc-utils (>= 2.0.4-7~), cpio, kmod | module-init-tools, udev,
${misc:Depends}
Suggests: bash-completion
Breaks: initramfs-tools (<< 0.121~)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index e6e920c..ea2ff3b 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,3 +2,12 @@
%:
dh --with bash-completion $@
+
+# On Debian we can use either busybox or busybox-static, but on Ubuntu
+# and derivatives only busybox-initramfs will work.
+BUSYBOX_PACKAGES := $(shell if dpkg-vendor --derives-from ubuntu; then echo
busybox-initramfs; else echo busybox busybox-static; fi)
+BUSYBOX_MIN_VERSION := 1:1.01-3
+
+override_dh_gencontrol:
+ echo >> debian/initramfs-tools-core.substvars
"busybox:Recommends=$(wordlist 2,100,$(BUSYBOX_PACKAGES:%=| % (>=
$(BUSYBOX_MIN_VERSION))))"
+ dh_gencontrol
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